I've been wondering about this lately. Can you see syllable boundaries on a spectrogram? If not, how can they be something that exist in reality and not just in our minds?KathTheDragon wrote:syllables exist on a phonetic level
Intuitively, I feel like two phones that have a syllable break between them are "less connected" than two phones that belong to the same syllable. If this is the case, surely it should be somehow observable?
And for those who want minimal pairs, here's one that I've mentioned once a long time ago: The streetname [tiː.li.kɑn.o.jɑ] ("tiilikka" ditch, though I have no idea what tiilikka means) vs. [tiː.li.kɑ.no.jɑ] (brick hen), though there's probably a difference in secondary stress here somehow.