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The latest acoustic investigations of juncture show that the factors determining an open or a close juncture are the duration of the sounds, their intensity and formant transitions. Thus, according to the data obtained by I. Lehiste, the initial /n/ in "a nice man" is longer than the final /n/ in "an iceman". The pre-junctural /n/ has falling intensity, while the post-junctural /n/ has rising intensity. Formant transitions of /n/ and /aɪ/ are different in the contrasted pairs.

While the phonetic realization of open juncture is described by different phoneticians in approximately the same terms, there is less uniformity in their phonological interpretation of the phenomena. Some phoneticians consider the open juncture to be a segmental phoneme, others consider it a suprasegmental phoneme or a phoneme in its own right.

K. Pike and I. Lehiste regard the juncture to be a contrastive feature of high-level units but not a phonological unit in its own right.

The i dent i f icatory function of the syllable is conditioned by the hearer's perception of syllables as entire phonetic units with their concrete allophones and syllabic boundaries.

The listener identifies two syllables in "plum pie" and "plump eye" with the corresponding boundaries before /p/ and after /p/, because in the first example /p/ is aspirated and /m/ is as tang as if it were final, whereas in the second example /p/ is unaspirated and /m/ is shorter on account of the following fortis /p/.

That is why learners of English should take care not to mispronounce English sounds and not to shift the syllabic boundary as it may cause not only a strong foreign accent, but also misunderstanding on the part of the listener.