In the non-moraic syllabic account, this initial vowel has a syllable but lacks a mora.
Participants produced and gave perceptual judgments on 40 non-words of varying syllabic structures in noun and verb sentence frames.
Actually word breaks are allowed at certain positions that depend on syllabic and morphological structure, but this does not concern us here.
Memory for nonwords also was excluded because one might retain them in terms of separate phonemic or syllabic series even if they are monosyllabic.
For both regular plurals and third person agreement, phonological ability predicted judgments on the single phoneme realizations, and not on the syllabic realization.
The usual way of representing syllabic consonants relies on their functional status : since they behave like vowels, they are found in nuclei.
They do propose a constraint that requires corresponding consonants to be in the same syllabic position, however.
This is turn avoids a potential anomaly whereby non-branching structure would have to be deemed unmarked in all syllabic constituents but marked in feet.
