Original sentence: (Bolinger 1989:358)
Edited sentence: (Bolinger 1989:358) According to Wells (1990), in the absence of morpheme boundaries or phonotactical constraints, a consonant between a full and a reduced vowel generally belongs to the syllable with the full vowel, whereas a consonant between two reduced vowels belongs to the first syllable.According to this analysis, manatee is  and humanity is ; voiceless plosives are only aspirated at the beginning of syllables, and /t/ can only be flapped at the end of a syllable: compare might I  →  and my tie  →