In my opinion, “tires” and “tired” can be described as sesquisyllabics. You may be able to go either as an o two syllables, and the second syllable is weak (like the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian concept of the forward/reduced syllable; look for the preinitials of Old China for a gateway) and short. They can unite to form a triphthong, or be noticeably different syllables The last part is crucial. What she and her employees find is that English diphthongs like [a` are a special case where the liquid wants to be in the core, but not either — perhaps because of mora problems, but certainly because of artistic problems. If you feel that the “tire” is two syllables, then your personal grammar may be particularly sensitive to both things. These are just some of the strategies used by linguists who work in phonetics and phonology to try to understand this mysterious unity of language. In 2008, the City University of New York organized a full conference on the issue of syllable. The series of paper titles (Is there a syllable? Psycholinguistic evidence of unit recovery in language production, structure of syllables revisited in Korean, and so on) tells you something about the interest and breadth of this topic. Sorry, if it`s not the right place, but definitely pulls 2 syllables, isn`t it? The variation in syllable counting between humans is not always random: people pay attention to different things when analyzing words. Ladefoged cites the example of the meteor and notes that it will be “two syllables for some people, but three syllables for those who think it is the same strain as the tribe in “meteoric.” Contains words that contain what linguists call high-level vocals, followed by /l/ (z.B. meal, seal, true) two syllables or one? What about words with /r/, like rent, fire, time? In words containing high vocalizations without tone (where your tongue sits near the roof of your mouth), followed by another vowel without an intermediate consonant, z.B.; Transmit, heavier, Neolithic, the vowels form a dipthong (two vowels that slide together) of a syllable or two? Ladefoged explains that he would say that the word predator has three syllables, but other people would count four. He also cites bottling and thinning as words that can be pronounced as two syllables, or with sillabic consonants in the middle, so that they have three syllables.
Then there are the words that everyone utters in the same way, but whose syllable is on the agenda. For example, in a word like communism, is this the last Syllabic “m” or not? There are other approaches to syllable in phonetics. But these problems are real and only become more amazing as you take a closer look at them. It is a little easier for phonologists, because phonology tells us that there are rules governing how syllables behave. It is difficult for a phonologist to respect rules about how the sound works in syllables without a good phonetic definition of what they are at all, but not impossible.