In terms of blends with clipping and overlapping, Algeo 1977 as cited in Enarsson 2006: 6 presented some examples. They were Californication
California + fornication, suspose suspect + suppose, and Hungarican Hungarian + American. Examining these examples, it was obvious that blends
with clipping and overlapping included both clipping and overlapping segments. In addition, Lehrer 2007: 118 presented five patterns of English blends.
Firstly, blends were created from a full word followed by a splinter. The instance was the blend steelionaire which was the combination of a full word steel and a
splinter millionaire. Secondly, the pattern was the contrary of the first one. It was the combination of a splinter and a full word. The example of this pattern was
Eurasia. It combined a splinter Europe and a full word Asia. Thirdly, it could be formed from two splinters. The example was the blend agitprop. Agitprop was
formed by combining two splinters agitation and propaganda. Fourthly, blends were structured from the complete overlap of one or more morpheme. In
this pattern, there was no splinter combined. Rather, there was an overlap. The blend cellebrity obtained from cell and celebrity, for instance, there was an
overlap part in cell. Lastly, the last pattern was the rare one. It was formed when the word or clipping was embedded in another word, thus it was treated as an
infix. The example was chortle which combined chuckle and snort. In chortle, the part of word snort was embedded as an infix in the word chuckle.
c. Syllabification Theory
Syllabification theory consists of two theories, namely syllable and syllable structure and also syllabification principle. Furthermore, syllabification principle
is divided into two parts Bokhari and Pervez, 2003: 64. First part is Sonority Sequence Principle SSP and the second part is Maximal Onset Principle MOP.
1. Syllable and Syllable Structure
Crystal 2008: 467 defines a syllable as a unit of pronunciation which is generally larger than a single sound, but smaller than a word. Thus, a syllable is a
greater unit other than segment. A syllable can be said as having segments which form the phonological structure. Therefore, it is considered as a suprasegmental
unit since it is composed of segments. Suprasegmental refers to those features which extend over more than one segment.
Basically, a syllable is a unit of speech that consists of a nucleus usually vowels surrounded by onsets consonants and codas consonants. A word
which contains a single syllable is called a monosyllabic word, while if it consists of more than one syllable, it is called a polysyllabic word Giegerich, 1992: 138.
According to Kahn 1976 as cited in St. Claire 2006: 128, syllables are structured in order to provide an adequate description of English phonology. In
general, a syllable has three important parts, namely nucleus, onset, and coda. Each syllable has an obligatory constituent called a nucleus N which is usually a
vowel. It is regarded as the core of the syllable. The other elements in a syllable are non-syllabic constituents known as onset O and coda C. The onset precedes
the nucleus and the coda follows the nucleus. They are made up of consonants. Finally, the Rhyme R is essential for signifying rhythmical patterns in the
syllable. Nucleus and coda function together to form a Rhyme.
The number of segments is important in recognizing English syllables. The onset has a maximum consonant number of two. Three consonants are allowed as
long as it includes a sequence of three-consonant cluster, namely s as the first segment, voiceless stops p or t or k as the second segment, and
approximants liquids or glides as the third segment. Coda has two consonants at maximum. The third segment allowed is s, z, t. Each segment in both onset
and coda constitutes one X Aitchison, 2003: 49. Rhyme is essential in syllable since it determines whether the syllable is
well-formed or not. The number of X is used as the basic of this consideration. A well-formed syllable consists of maximum 3-X positions in the Rhyme. Stressed
vowel needs to have minimum 2-X position in Rhyme, thus it is called heavy syllable. Conversely, unstressed vowel must have minimum 1-X position in
Rhyme so-called light syllable Giegerich, 1992: 143-146.
2 Syllabification Principle
Most languages tend to follow these following two principles of syllabification, namely Sonority Sequence Principle SSP and Maximal Onset
Principle MOP. In fact, several languages do not follow MOP, but most of the languages follow SSP Bokhari and Pervez, 2003: 64.
a Sonority Sequence Principle SSP
The sonority of a sound is the relative loudness compared to other sounds of the same length, stress, and pitch Ladefoged, 1993: 245. Therefore, a syllable
must contains sonorous elements and its associated less sonorous segments. A
