obligatorily a single onset consonant. The rhyme is usually composed of a vowel nucleus of a long or a short vowel optionally followed by a single consonant. The syllabic canon is . Some examples of a generic syllable structure are: =and, or. =tree =pus =food. Consonant clusters result only from conjoined closed syllables. For example, clusters of consonants occur when a syllable ending in a consonant is followed in the same word by another syllable. Some examples of consonant clusters are: =poison oak. =my father. =you put it in. Vowels may be long, but sequences of vowels do not occur. Stress Syllable stress in Wintu are predictable components of two junctures hyphen/-/ and plus/+/. There are four phonemic junctures ranked by their magnitude: Plus/+/, hyphen/-/, comma/,/ and period/./. Plus juncture is a central juncture. In Plus Juncture the location of the pitch and the stress in a phonemic word is determined by the structure of the syllable and its position relative to the juncture. Syllables are determined by the presence or absence of vowels and semi-vowels. Light syllables contain short vowels. Heavy syllables contain short vowels followed by a semi-vowel. Extra-heavy syllables contain long vowels. The prominent syllable of a phonemic word is always the first, unless the second syllable is heavier, in which case the second syllable is stressed. Degree of intensity In the primary stress the greater is the magnitude of the preceding juncture, the greater is the intensity of the stress. The secondary stress, on the other hand, occurs when a heavy syllable follows the prominent syllable and varies in intensity. The weakest stress occurs when a syllable is not stressed and follows immediately after a phonemic juncture. Ex. Extra heavy syllable: bóꞏs= house. Ex. Syllable with secondary stress: ní= I. Ex. Light Syllable: Liláꞏ=to accuse. The Hyphen Juncture occurs with phonemic words and it represents a phonemically functional unity with particular phonetic proprieties that contrast with other junctures. Like the plus juncture, the hyphen juncture affects the location of higher pitch and stress. But instead of conditioning the location of the syllables like the plus juncture, the hyphen shifts the pitch and the stress. The Hyphen juncture is the juncture with the least magnitude, being the only one occurring within words (for example, following certain prefixes and preceding some auxiliaries and enclitics). Ex./+maꞏtceki+/ ear wax. Ex./+maꞏt-ceki-/one split ear. Ex./+ʔelwine+/ with, along, accompanying. Ex./+ʔel-wine-/ to look straight