Syllables syllabic consonants

We have shown previously that in addition to simple or linear phonemic context, a major factor in determining the realisation of phonemes is their place in the syllabic structure. Phonemes at the starts of syllables or words can be realised differently from ones at the ends the position of a phoneme in a consonant cluster is important, and stress effects, which are expressed at syllable level, also have an important bearing on phonetic realisation. We therefore have to give the waveform generation component access to this syllabic information. 

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