

Regarding /ks/: according to English phonotactics, this would be syllabified as /k.s/ otherwise, it would violate the sonority distance principle. The perceptual cues to C in sC will be compromised by /s/ therefore, we would expect the most common sC to have a C with robust internal cues such as s+liquid. Goad argues against the perceptually-based account by pointing out that cross-linguistically s+stop are the most common sC clusters. This view is recently developed by Goad (2012) "sC Clusters are (almost always) coda-initial". In the Government Phonology framework, /s/ in sC is considered to be a coda. This has led some people to propose that /s/ is an appendix linked to a level higher than the syllable in prosodic structure (e.g. In all these ways, /s/ behaves in a special way. Furthermore, sC clusters permit different POAs in 2nd position e.g./sp, st, sk/ whereas POA is restricted in other onsets clusters, mostly coronal /r,l/ e.g. sp, sk/ violate the sonority profile /sl/ violates constraints against identical place of articulation (POA) in onset /st/ violates both and /sn/ violates three phonotactic constraints: sonority, POA, and sonority distance of onsets (other Cn onsets are not permitted in English). The status of /s/ and sC clusters does indeed pose a problem for phonotactics. The maximum onset principle does some work for you, in explaining why /VstV/ syllabifies as in English, not. Since is not a possible onset in English, there is only one possible syllabification of /VksV/. Sequences of the form would also be good, but having a constrast between and is not so good (because it is harder to distinguish the difference between and before a consonant). Sequences of the form where C is not a fricative are fairly easy to parse acoustically – though not trivial, so they might be allowed, or they might be disallowed. The voice-overs produced are significantly. Actually, in 2021 no other text-to-speech or music-track program comes close to Sonority’s capabilities. The desirability of onset relative to or relative to can be explained by the fact that the former lead to acoustic landmarks which make it easy to identify the segments (in an onset), but the latter are not (for instance, has very weak acoustic cues, no striking release, low amplitude, but a strong influence on vowel formants, so "should" be next to a vowel). Sonority is a cloud-based voice-over & music-track synthesizer that allows you to produce audio tracks for your videos, courses, or podcasts without the need for an API key or additional credits. It is generally recognized (following decades of argument by Ohala, also see Wright 1996) that abstract "sonority" is not particularly relevant in explaining segment sequence tendencies, and what matters is whether a sequence is easily parsed. Syllables do not have to conform to the notion of "sonority sequencing", which is only a rough approximation of crosslinguistic syllable structure tendencies.
