Editing Syllable (section)

==== Rime ====

The '''rime''' or '''rhyme''' of a syllable consists of a [[#Nucleus|nucleus]] and an optional [[#Coda|coda]]. It is the part of the syllable used in most [[Rhyme|poetic rhyme]]s, and the part that is lengthened or stressed when a person elongates or stresses a word in speech.

The rime is usually the portion of a syllable from the first [[vowel]] to the end. For example, {{IPA|/æt/}} is the rime of all of the words ''at'', ''sat'', and ''flat''. However, the nucleus does not necessarily need to be a vowel in some languages, such as English. For instance, the rime of the second syllables of the words ''bottle'' and ''fiddle'' is just {{IPA|/l/}}, a [[liquid consonant]].

Just as the rime branches into the nucleus and coda, the nucleus and coda may each branch into multiple [[phoneme]]s. The limit for the number of phonemes which may be contained in each varies by language. For example, [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and most [[Sino-Tibetan languages]] do not have consonant clusters at the beginning or end of syllables, whereas many Eastern European languages can have more than two consonants at the beginning or end of the syllable. In English, the onset may have up to three consonants, and the coda four.<ref name="Hultzén">{{Cite journal |last=Hultzén |first=Lee S. |date=1965 |title=Consonant Clusters in English |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/454173 |journal=American Speech |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=5–19 |doi=10.2307/454173 |jstor=454173 |issn=0003-1283|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

''Rime'' and ''rhyme'' are variants of the same word, but the rarer form ''rime'' is sometimes used to mean specifically ''syllable rime'' to differentiate it from the concept of poetic [[rhyme]]. This distinction is not made by some linguists and does not appear in most dictionaries.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Examples <br><small>C = consonant, V = vowel, optional components are in parentheses.</small>
! structure: !! syllable = !! onset !! + rhyme
|-
! C<sup>+</sup>V<sup>+</sup>C*:
| C<sub>1</sub>(C<sub>2</sub>)V<sub>1</sub>(V<sub>2</sub>)(C<sub>3</sub>)(C<sub>4</sub>) =
| C<sub>1</sub>(C<sub>2</sub>)
| + V<sub>1</sub>(V<sub>2</sub>)(C<sub>3</sub>)(C<sub>4</sub>)
|-
! V<sup>+</sup>C*:
| V<sub>1</sub>(V<sub>2</sub>)(C<sub>3</sub>)(C<sub>4</sub>) =
| Title="null"| ∅
| + V<sub>1</sub>(V<sub>2</sub>)(C<sub>3</sub>)(C<sub>4</sub>)
|}