“I'm also oversimplifying, but that's okay, because I'm not a phonologist or a phonetician.”
“The phonologist wants to come up with a formal, fixed definition of exactly what the syllable is as a part of language.”
“It is difficult for a phonologist to observe rules about the way sound works in syllables without a good phonetic definition of what they even are, but not impossible.”
phonostatistics
(linguistics) the application of statistical methods to phonology and phonetics