11. The allegro deletion of //t// under the conditions exemplified in
plenty and twenty in AmE (//nt// become /nd/ when flanked by unstressed vowels, as in seventy) provides evidence for syllabization, since it evidently occurs syllable-finally (as in inter), not syllable-intially (as in in'ter, i.e., "bury").
Since //t// is deleted in allegro To'ron(tˌ)o and pron(tˌ)o, but not in the lento versions of these words, we are justified in concluding that the syllabalizations are allegro To'ron(tˌ)o and pron(tˌ)o and lento To'ronˌtʰo and pronˌtʰo.
The aspiration of [tʰ] in the lento examples confirms this surmise (see 12).
Apoin(t)'ee is further example that, like tau[d]'ology (i.e., tautology, relevant to the preceding rule), shows that syllabization rules are sometimes ignored. Further evidence for such phenomena is mentioned in connection with R15 below.
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