lpt, lkt, mpt, as in gulped, milked, stamped, inked, banked,

12. C. {lfs, lths, nths, ... gulf, sylphs, healths, tenths, plinths,

TERMINATIONAL SYLLABIC COMBINATIONS OF VOICE ARTICULATIONS.

as in babe, mob, bad, trade, egg, plague, &c.

From what we have said (page 65) on the component elements of syllables, it will be evident that voice articulations cannot follow breath ones in the same syllable, but that breath articulations may follow vocal ones. The following mixed combinations (besides the Liquids already given in the first part of this table) are all that occur in English.

A further variety of syllabic quantities arises from the COMBINATION OF SYLLABLES INTO WORDS.

An accented syllable-whatever its constituent elementsfollowed by one unaccented, is shorter than a monosyllable containing the same elements; followed by two unaccented syllables, it is still shorter; by three, shorter still; and so on, it decreases in quantity, as its terminational unaccented syllables increase in number. Thus, lit, litter, literal, literally. If we repeat the monosyllable in its ordinary degree of time, we shall find that we can pronounce the dissyllable, trissyllable, or quadrisyllable in the same time. This may be well tested by accompanying the accent by a beat of the hand.

It is further to be observed, that the accented syllable is longer when the syllable next to it begins with an articulation, than when it begins with a vowel. A comparison of love, lovely, loveliness, with love, loving, lovingly, will manifest this. Subjoined are a few instances of each vowel before the different classes of articulations, followed by one, two, and three unaccented syllables. Instances of the first three classes are shown with both vowels and articulations following the accent.