التركيب المقطعيّ في العربيّة

The issue of syllabification and syllable structure in Arabic has been of great interest to phoneticians due to the significant role it plays in the construction of syllables in this language. The objective of this research paper is to study the phonological property of Arabic syllables. It begins by introducing the topic and then it presents some key definitions of the term as has been used by various researchers and specialists and considers how various linguists look at the way syllables are structured. Furthermore, this study also explains how syllables are constructed in terms of consonants and vowels according to phoneticians and argues against this. As an alternative, this paper presents a new account of the Arabic syllable in accordance with a prosodic theory used in Arabic poetry. Finally, after investigating views put forward by scholars working in the field and discussing and criticizing them, the paper ends by presenting some interesting conclusions that pertain to the work.