For next Tuesday (2/12) and Thursday (2/14), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.)
Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 3.1-3.2 (English onsets and codas). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 7 (“English syllable structure”). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.