Spanish Syllable Structure

I heard that Kenneth Pike denies a possible syllabification of Spanish words like "transcribir" because they cannot subscribe to the necessary rules of syllabification, which are basically:

1. Onset First

2.Consistency with word boundary rules

3. Consistency with sonority scale

Specifically, the word boundary rule, in that worlds like transcribir could be split any of the following ways:

tra.nscribir (i)
tran.scribir (ii)
trans.cribir (iii)
transc.ribir (iv)
transcr.ibir (v)

Alright, (i) (iv) and (v) we can assume are ridiculous, because they have massive or strange clusters, very technical. The argument is that tran.scribir has a viable coda in the first, but not a viable onset in the second, and that trans.cribir has a viable onset in the second, but not a viable coda in the first.

My instinct, and the answer according to Jeff Stokes, is that you go with the latter (iii), because cr is a possible onset, and that scr is not. It's not perfect (if you assume the syllabification rules are truly universal, then this doesn't seem to quite work. I would argue personally that there is possibly some tiering involved, and that rule 2 is actually two rules, where the onset must be viable, and then a secondary rule would be that /if/ you can make the coda there work, great, if not, work with what you have.

I would predict that most Spanish speakers would syllabify it, without particular hesitation, as trans.cribir. It looks to me that the only potential problem words are words that would have -m in the coda, or -ns in the coda, both do not occur at word finals. So, perhaps there is a conventionalized mechanism for resolution, as there is not a widespread amount of this problem.