When syllabifying a word, SSP states that sonority should increase from the first phoneme of the onset to the syllable's nu-cleus, and then fall off to the coda (Selkirk, 1984).
in a word like vintage [vÁntÁ], we can rule out a syllabification like [vÁ-ntÁ] because [n] is more sonorant than [t].