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A syllable-based phonological description of a language should represent all the meaningful oppositional patterns within the syllabic domain. Syllable feature underspecification allows for parsimony of description and provides a framework in which to capture dialectal variation of phonetic implementation in natural discourse. Given the entire syllable as the domain, syntagmatic relationships evince rules for co-occurrence among feature sets in onset, coda, nucleus, and any affixes. In English, syllable features demonstrate that the same phoneme in syllable onset and coda functions differently, with constraints restricting tautosyllabic co-occurrence. Moreover, the grammar of English phonology requires a coda feature in every non-reduced syllable.
