(25-09-2016, 02:44 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
A word like 'bottle', when pronounced, can have two syllables yet only one vowel. It is not that an extra vowel is inserted before /l/, but rather that /l/ acts like a vowel in its own right. Your teacher who taught you that every syllable has to have a vowel was wrong (though they were right to teach you the way they did).
Some people do pronounce 'bottle', 'rhythm', and 'button' with two vowels, but /botl/, /riðm/, and /butn/ are perfectly normal in many varieties of English.
Yes, exactly.
A word like rhythm or bottle behaves as if there is a vowel even when the vowel isn't there. As I said, those are good examples.
But my point is that "button" is not in the same category, the vowel IS there, so the "n" in this context is not an example of a syllabic consonant because the "o" creates the vowel sound. The syllable is created by the combination of the "o" (vowel) and "n" (consonant). It's different from rhyth[]m and bott[]le where the "m" and "l" are syllabic consonants.