Cheers,

Bruce

The general structure of a syllable consists of the following segments:

Onset (obligatory in some languages, optional or even restricted in others)

Rhyme

Nucleus (obligatory in all languages)

Coda (optional in some languages, highly restricted or prohibited in others)

tree representation of a CVC syllableIn some theories of phonology, these syllable structures are displayed as tree diagrams (similar to the trees found in some types of syntax).

The syllable nucleus is typically a sonorant, usually making a vowel sound, in the form of a monophthongs, diphthong, or triphthong, but sometimes sonorant consonants like [l] or [r]. The syllable onset is the sound or sounds occurring before the nucleus, and the syllable coda (literally ‘tail’) is the sound or sounds that follow the nucleus. The term rhyme covers the nucleus plus coda. In the one-syllable English word cat, the nucleus is a, the onset c, the coda t, and the rhyme at. This syllable can be abstracted as a consonant-vowel-consonant syllable, abbreviated CVC.

Generally, every syllable requires a nucleus. Onsets are extremely common, and some languages require all syllables to have an onset. (That is, a CVC syllable like cat is possible, but a VC syllable such as at is not.) A coda-less syllable of the form V, CV, CCV, etc. is called an open syllable, while a syllable that has a coda (VC, CVC, CVCC, etc.) is called a closed syllable (or checked syllable). All languages allow open syllables, but some, such as Hawaiian, do not have closed syllables.

Heres a link of the pic the discription is talking bout

there are many types of different syllables..

VELCRO <- is the abbreviation of diff kinds...it's a long story but i hope you can research it :)