It occurs postvocalically, in syllable-final position, before a consonant (as in milk) and, in some environments, as a syllabic consonant (as in drizzle).
A syllabic consonant may be analyzed phonologically either as just the consonant, or as consisting of an underlying schwa followed by the consonant.
The rime consists of a nucleus (usually a vowel or a syllabic consonant) with or without a coda.
Recifense dialect usually palatalize fricatives in any syllabic consonant meeting (including the end of words) and not only before /d/ and /t/.
This syllabic consonant behaves as the rhyme.
Next we must account for the restriction of coda\syllabic consonants to nasals (41b).
Syllabic consonants receive an additional point in the same way as nonsyllabic consonants.
The usual way of representing syllabic consonants relies on their functional status : since they behave like vowels, they are found in nuclei.
