Remarks on mutae cum liquidā and branching onsets

Consider the proper name ‘Boutros’. The general consensus is that, segmental phonetic details aside, speakers of Arabic and English perform the different syllabic parsings shown in (1) of such a word. Assigning t and r to the rightmost syllable in English amounts to recognising a muta cum liquidā in the sense of 19 century philologists and students of the versification of classical languages.