Coronal consonants freely occur after /aʊ/ (mouth, mouthed, out, loud, mouse, rouse, Roush, couch, gouge, down, owl, hour) but non-coronal consonants must be separated by a syllable boundary, e.g. linguist Liz Cowper /ˈkaʊ.pəɹ/ (cf. */kaʊp/), Hawaiian pudding haupia /haʊˈpiː.ə/ (cf. */haʊp/), [1/3]
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