Editing Syllable (section)

===Ambisyllabicity===
There can be disagreement about the location of some divisions between syllables in spoken language. The problems of dealing with such cases have been most commonly discussed with relation to English. In the case of a word such as ''hurry'', the division may be {{IPA|/hʌr.i/}} or {{IPA|/hʌ.ri/}}, neither of which seems a satisfactory analysis for a [[non-rhotic accent]] such as RP (British English): {{IPA|/hʌr.i/}} results in a syllable-final {{IPA|/r/}}, which is not normally found, while {{IPA|/hʌ.ri/}} gives a syllable-final short stressed vowel, which is also non-occurring. Arguments can be made in favour of one solution or the other: A general rule has been proposed that states that "Subject to certain conditions ..., consonants are syllabified with the more strongly stressed of two flanking syllables",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wells |first1=John C. |author1-link=John C. Wells |editor1-last=Ramsaran |editor1-first=Susan |title=Studies in the pronunciation of English : a commemorative volume in honour of A.C. Gimson |date=1990 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, UK |isbn=9781138918658 |pages=76–86 |url=https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm |chapter=Syllabification and allophony}}</ref> while many other phonologists prefer to divide syllables with the consonant or consonants attached to the following syllable wherever possible. However, an alternative that has received some support is to treat an intervocalic consonant as ''ambisyllabic'', i.e. belonging both to the preceding and to the following syllable: {{IPA|/hʌṛi/}}. This is discussed in more detail in {{Section link|English phonology|Phonotactics}}.