mshomphe's Journal: Calling all phonologists!

Any phonologists/linguists out there who know where I can get a complete list of English syllable onsets, offsets (codas) and nuclei? I want to make a random word generator, and I have the basics down, I just need some lists.

For example, 'ft' is a valid offset in English, but not a valid onset. In other words, you can have a word like 'aft', but not a word like 'fta'.

Help is appreciated.

Build your own lists?

[arb]

Why not write a simple parser that will generate a list from a dictonary file? This shouldn't be too difficult.

If you don't want to generate your own list, a quick search on Google for "syllable onset offset coda" or "syllable onset offset nuclei" returns three pages (each) mostly of PDF papers. There might be some useful information in the papers or at least references to something that might help.