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The purpose of this paper is to explain English syllabification of intervocalic consonant and ambisyllabicity. There are three ways to explain the intervocalic consonant: basic syllabification, resyllabification, and ambi- syllabicity. The three English phonological processes are reviewed in this paper. It is argued that the l-velarisation, flapping and aspiration phenomena can be explained clearly for the most cases with the concept of ambisyllabicity, and sometimes the notion of foot is needed for explaining some dialectal differences in l-velarisation and aspiration. This paper also shows that prosodic (foot-based) approach without the notion of ambisyllabicity is not superior to ambisyllabicity approach in that the classification of foot is too arbitrary

This paper examines how the syllabication spelling of Modern Korean operates as the non-phonological constraints, and figured out how the distinctive feature divided into morpheme boundaries is the factor limiting the phonological phenomenon in its internalized process. The rounding refers to the phenomenon where [labial] of labial transforms the connected unrounded vowel to rounded vowel. In syllabication spelling such [labial] does not go over the morpheme boundary and function as a assimilatior, but in liaison spelling, [labial] has already gone over the morpheme boundary, so the rounding is applied. When discussing the expansion process of phonological phenomenon in Modern Korean, the liaison spelling applying phonological phenomenon is not precise enough, but the syllabication spelling should be included in the study subject for precise examination of the internalized process and the expansion process at the morpheme boundary.