Abstract
Syllable contact is a notion introduced to describe the sonority relation between adjacent segments across a syllable boundary, that is, between heterosyllabic coda and onset segments. According to Hooper (1976), Murray and Vennemann (1983), and Vennemann (1988), among others, there is a cross‐linguistic preference to avoid rising sonority across a syllable boundary; this tendency is formulated as the Syllable Contact Law (SCL). This law states, for example, thatal.ta, with falling sonority, is preferred toat.la, with rising sonority. This law has been adduced to account for both diachronic and synchronic sound alternations in coda—onset clusters.
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