For questions about sound patterns of English i.e. how phonemes combine in consonant clusters, what kind of clusters are allowed in English, why some clusters occur and others don't, how a particular word evolved, word stress and syllabification etc.
This tag is for questions about sound patterns of English i.e. how phonemes combine in consonant clusters, what kind of consonant clusters are allowed in English, why some clusters occur and others don't. For example, why does /-lk/ occur at the end of English word, but not in the beginning?
How a particular word evolved. Also use this tag for word stress etc. Phonology studies how sounds combine, what kind of sounds combine and where they occur in words.
This also includes syllables and syllabification, for instance, why can 'elephant' be syllabified as /ˈe.lə.fənt/ but not as */ˈel.əf.ənt/ etc.
