Rules of the syllable in Spanish

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Rules of the syllable in Spanish

• Why do we say it like that???

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La sílabasyllable

• In Spanish all syllables have at least one vowel.
• We take into account how the word is pronounced
  and not how it is written
• Remember letra y sonido

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Examples..

• The letter h has no sound
• The letter x has two sounds
• The letter ch has two letters, but one sound
• The letter ll has two letters, but one sound
• The letter rr has two letters, but one sound

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How do we separate the sounds???

• VCV one consonant in between two vowels
• The consonant will go with its neighbor vowel on
  the right, and form a syllable
• Hora ho-ra Hour
• Perro pe-rro Dog
• Abanico a-ba-ni-co Fan

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VCCV

• Two consonants that are the same or different
  that are next to each other are split VC-CV to
  form syllables.
• Leccion lec-ción Lesson
• Concepto con-cep-to Concept
• Respecto res-pec-to Respect

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CC- Consonant Consonant special rule!!!!!

• Any combination of B,C,D,F,G,P,T with either r
  or l will not be seperated
• Br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, bl, cl, fl, gl, pl,
  tl
• Abrazar a-bra-zar Hug/Embrace
• Hablador ha-bla-dor Talker,Chatty
• Ofrece o-fre-ce Offer

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Three consonants in a row CCC

• This pattern has 2 rules
• First we will separate C-CC if the third
  consonant is r or l
• Imprime im-pri-me Print
• Desplazar des-pla-zar Displace

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2ndRule CC-C

• We will separate the last consonant from the two
  previous if the SECOND consonant is an /s/
• Obstaculo obs-tá-cu-lo Obstacle
• Transporte trans-por-te Transport
• Only when there is a group combination of ns-C,
  bs-C, rs-C, ls-C, ds-C, ks-C, can there be two
  consonants at the end of a syllable

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Four consonants together CCCC

• These words will be separated by CC-CC and they
  combine the previous two consonant rules
• Instrumento ins-tru-men-to Instrument
• Construcción cons-truc-ción Construction

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Now its your turn..Separate the following words
using the rules

• Calle
• Carretilla
• Perenne
• Dirección
• Lector
• Transcurrir
• Instinto
• Atrevido
• Madrina

• Deprisa
• Templo
• Influye
• Instructor
• Subscribir
• Tema
• Capaz

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Respuestas.Answers

• Ca-lle
• Ca-rre-ti-lla
• Pe-ren-ne
• Di-rec-cion
• Lec-tor
• Trans-curr-ir
• Ins-tin-to
• A-tre-vi-do
• Ma-dri-na

• De-pri-sa
• Tem-plo
• In-flu-ye
• Ins-truc-tor
• Subs-cri-bir
• Te-ma
• Ca-paz