lost this ability, causing the process of I-prosthesis to occur, whereby an /i/ was inserted at the beginning of such a word, to make the /s/ instead a coda consonant rather than an onset consonant. As a result, Western Romance languages like Spanish and French will have and (from ) respectively where a non-Western Romance language like Italian has , and even has words such as 'deck-chair'. However, all of the sonority violations noted above occur at word edges, not word-internally. Therefore, some recent phonological accounts postulate that the segments outside of the sonority sequencing may be considered "extrasyllabic consonants", consonants occurring outside of any syllable, and licensed in their language by the word they are part of. English string, for example, would then contain a syllable [tring] with a preceding extrasyllabic s. Sources Phonology Phonotactics