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- ...he study of the patterns of sounds and signs in [[language]]. Typically, a syllable consists of a [[vowel]] and at least one [[consonant]], though various comb ...gif|450px|right|thumb|Onset-Nucleus-Coda: one view of the structure of the syllable, showing the syllabification of three words in English, [[Japanese language18 KB (2,729 words) - 14:12, 18 February 2024
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- #REDIRECT [[Syllable#Syllable structure]]41 bytes (4 words) - 06:34, 19 August 2009
- ''Works cited in the [[Syllable]] article'' *Blevins, J. (1995). The syllable in phonological theory. In J.A. Goldsmith (ed.) ''The Handbook of Phonologi2 KB (314 words) - 09:43, 17 November 2010
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- 380 bytes (48 words) - 16:09, 1 February 2014
- Group of one or more consonants at the end of a syllable, e.g. [n] in ''pin'' or [lt] in ''belt''; while languages such as German or352 bytes (58 words) - 02:57, 7 February 2010
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- #REDIRECT [[Syllable#Syllable structure]]41 bytes (4 words) - 06:34, 19 August 2009
- ...e syllable(s) at the end of one line have the same or similar sound as the syllable(s) at the end of another.197 bytes (36 words) - 16:06, 1 February 2014
- ...encing which syllable in a word is stressed (as in English), or how long a syllable is relative to others (as in Japanese).337 bytes (55 words) - 02:24, 25 September 2009
- ...define how long a syllable or other unit is relative to others: the single syllable ''hon'' 'book' is underlain by two moras, one for ''ho'' and one for ''n'', ...e right receives main stress, i.e. [-mæn-]. [ɹə-], despite being the first syllable in the word, has only one mora in its rhyme and so is not stressed.2 KB (268 words) - 14:40, 20 June 2015
- *[[Syllable]]85 bytes (7 words) - 14:48, 27 December 2007
- A stressed syllable in poetry.66 bytes (8 words) - 07:14, 25 March 2010
- ...d syllable, then both the stressed syllable preceding it and the following syllable(s) should have the same sound. Different languages have different rules fo An '''eye-rhyme''' occurs when a syllable appears to have the same ending on paper, but actually sounds differently.2 KB (322 words) - 11:58, 24 October 2014
- ...for learners than the more obvious front-chaining, starting with the first syllable, as it requires them to put the new element first, where it is less easily ...t to another syllable.</ref> it is arguably better to begin with the final syllable (main stress in '''bold'''):2 KB (272 words) - 18:28, 27 December 2007
- Phonological and phonetic prominence of a syllable relative to other syllables, generally involving greater pitch, length or l170 bytes (21 words) - 02:10, 12 October 2009
- ...nsisting of ten syllables in groups of two with the accent on every second syllable.134 bytes (20 words) - 10:49, 24 July 2009
- ...''hiragana'' (ひらがな) and ''katakana'' (カタカナ); symbols represent moras, i.e. syllable-like units.196 bytes (21 words) - 02:19, 12 October 2009
- ''Works cited in the [[Syllable]] article'' *Blevins, J. (1995). The syllable in phonological theory. In J.A. Goldsmith (ed.) ''The Handbook of Phonologi2 KB (314 words) - 09:43, 17 November 2010
- {{rpl|Coda (syllable)}}170 bytes (24 words) - 06:27, 19 August 2009
- .... any phonological units or structure which organise segments, such as the syllable or phonological phrase.310 bytes (43 words) - 14:35, 20 June 2015
- ...ogical unit; subsequently built upon by other analyses that recognised the syllable and other units of prosodic organisation.300 bytes (44 words) - 08:16, 16 October 2011
- ...nd in phonology as a segment that cannot occupy the nucleus or 'peak' of a syllable.232 bytes (38 words) - 03:38, 7 August 2009
- ...n '''T'''erritory '''A'''erial '''S'''ervices'', *Kwóntus, *Qùantus, first syllable sounding like that of '''qùantity''' ...t''', '''sextét''', '''septét''', '''octét''', '''nonét''', all with final-syllable stress2 KB (342 words) - 21:16, 31 July 2017
- Group of one or more consonants at the end of a syllable, e.g. [n] in ''pin'' or [lt] in ''belt''; while languages such as German or352 bytes (58 words) - 02:57, 7 February 2010
- ..., [[Laniarius aethiopicus]], along with a [[spectrogram]] of the initial [[syllable]]s of their duet.}}363 bytes (49 words) - 16:47, 21 October 2010
- {{r|Syllable}}250 bytes (31 words) - 23:08, 11 July 2009
- ...erent [[syllable]]s, whereas a diphthong is pronounced as part of a single syllable. The term is originally from [[Greek (language)|Greek]], meaning "double so2 KB (230 words) - 15:13, 15 November 2013
- {{r|Syllable}}355 bytes (41 words) - 07:01, 22 December 2008
- ...Syllables and phonotactics in Irish. In van der Hulst H & Ritter NA ''The syllable: Views and Facts''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp.551–575. ISBN 311016274444 bytes (58 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2009
- {{r|Syllable}}352 bytes (45 words) - 01:05, 4 March 2009
- {{r|Syllable}}376 bytes (42 words) - 14:39, 20 June 2015
- *Hooper JB (1972) 'The syllable in phonological theory.' ''Language'' 48: 525-540. *Selkirk EO (1984) On the major class features and syllable theory. In Aronoff M & Oerhle RT (eds) ''Language Sound Structure.'' Cambri1 KB (191 words) - 19:19, 27 December 2008
- {{r|Syllable}}152 bytes (16 words) - 11:57, 24 October 2014
- {{r|Syllable}}210 bytes (23 words) - 14:40, 20 June 2015
- {{r|Syllable}}426 bytes (50 words) - 23:28, 25 July 2009
- {{r|Syllable}}423 bytes (50 words) - 23:30, 25 July 2009
- ...ing ''y'', so they should not be pronounced as though they are in the same syllable, as they would be in [[English language|English]].</ref>, is a region of [[2 KB (270 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...like putting a foot (or [[meter (poetry)|meter]]) down, and it's the long syllable in the first half of the foot. The opposite is [[arsis]] which means (in Gr504 bytes (82 words) - 20:41, 31 March 2010
- {{r|Syllable}}642 bytes (90 words) - 01:26, 23 February 2010
- {{r|Syllable}}436 bytes (56 words) - 21:43, 11 January 2010
- ...consists of ten syllables in groups of two with the accent on every second syllable. As with other meters, each group of syllables is called a foot. There are600 bytes (100 words) - 11:03, 24 July 2009
- {{r|Syllable}}579 bytes (77 words) - 07:53, 2 March 2024
- {{r|Syllable}}620 bytes (82 words) - 17:19, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Syllable}}648 bytes (82 words) - 16:48, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Syllable}}774 bytes (98 words) - 20:22, 11 January 2010
- ...s beyond differences between individual sounds, involving topics such as [[syllable]] structure, [[stress (linguistics)|stress]], [[accent (linguistics)|accent ...not occur after [s] within syllables, but some speakers do have aspiration syllable-finally. Aspiration can be observed by holding a piece of paper in front of8 KB (1,140 words) - 00:31, 3 September 2010
- ...the end of a line of verse. The similarity would be in the final accented syllable, and, if there were unstressed syllables following, in those also. It was722 bytes (122 words) - 11:22, 8 September 2020
- ...language)|Latin]], anceps means ''two-headed'', and an anceps is the final syllable in a hexameter verse which can be either long or short. Dactylic hexameter683 bytes (107 words) - 08:38, 10 December 2011
- {{r|Syllable}}885 bytes (110 words) - 14:58, 9 March 2024
- ...the dominant system is the accentual-syllabic (which takes both stress and syllable count into account), many English-language poets have used syllabic metre ( A foot consists of one stressed syllable and either one or two unstressed, in a specific pattern; the pattern "unstr11 KB (1,768 words) - 09:45, 5 September 2013
- ...lables and phonotactics in Irish'. In H. van der Hulst & N.A. Ritter ''The Syllable: Views and Facts''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp.551–575. ISBN 311016274961 bytes (132 words) - 01:59, 26 February 2009
- ...[[epic]] [[poetry]] relating to the [[dactylic hexameter]] in which a long syllable is substituted for two short syllables. It's the opposite of [[resolution (970 bytes (142 words) - 21:29, 30 March 2010
- ...he study of the patterns of sounds and signs in [[language]]. Typically, a syllable consists of a [[vowel]] and at least one [[consonant]], though various comb ...gif|450px|right|thumb|Onset-Nucleus-Coda: one view of the structure of the syllable, showing the syllabification of three words in English, [[Japanese language18 KB (2,729 words) - 14:12, 18 February 2024
- ...by the practice of omitting certain syllables during [[scansion]]. A final syllable ending in a vowel (or the letter -m) is normally elided before a word begin1 KB (165 words) - 05:13, 31 March 2010
- ...istics)|pitch]] are all that is necessary to distinguish one [[word]] or [[syllable]] from another in meaning, as well as the more familiar distinctions made t ====Syllable structure====8 KB (1,133 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...eration is the literary device of having two closely associated stressed [[syllable]]s, normally at the beginning of a word, starting either with the same [[co1 KB (193 words) - 16:42, 24 February 2015
- .... A [[syllabary]], for example, assigns a [[symbol]] to each significant [[syllable]] of the language, while an [[alphabet]] records individual ''[[phoneme]]s' ...sticks' or 'bridge'. The [[pitch]] contour of the [[voice]] over the two [[syllable]]s leads to different [[pronunciation]] in many varieties of Japanese, incl3 KB (498 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- ...shonour'.<ref>Stress is indicated by [ ˈ ] immediately before the stressed syllable.</ref> Exceptions are often [[adverb]]s or [[loanwords]], such as ''amháin3 KB (437 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2009
- {{r|Syllable}}1 KB (190 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- ...her than a unit of higher [[prosofdy|prosodic]] analysis. This view of the syllable largely did not survive subsequent research, but Chomsky and Halle's use of3 KB (498 words) - 00:28, 20 February 2009
- ===The syllable===5 KB (773 words) - 05:01, 11 March 2010
- ...tion is only optionally included. Most Chinese characters represent both a syllable and a morpheme, and thus the characters used to write languages such as [[M {{seealso|Syllable|Mora|Chinese characters}}8 KB (1,142 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- ...tters]], representing [[phoneme]]s, but they are arranged into groups of [[syllable]]s, so the [[written language]] incorporates elements of both an alphabet a2 KB (217 words) - 22:31, 12 November 2011
- ...age|English]] word ''let'') and the stress, which is always on the first [[syllable]]. The [[alphabet]] contains 44 letters: 14 [[vowel]]s and 26 [[consonant]]1 KB (227 words) - 06:28, 16 October 2008
- {{r|Syllable}}2 KB (277 words) - 16:52, 11 January 2010
- ...distribution in English (e.g. in [[British English]] they can form single-syllable words: 'are', 'or'). ...f one vowel towards another, forming a continuous articulation in a single syllable; they do ''not'' consist of two vowels articulated one after the other, and4 KB (728 words) - 19:44, 25 November 2009
- In [[linguistics]], two units of [[language]] such as a [[word]]s or [[syllable]]s that differ in only one component, such as a single [[phoneme]], are cal2 KB (270 words) - 10:54, 26 September 2016
- ...shonour'.<ref>Stress is indicated by [ ˈ ] immediately before the stressed syllable.</ref> Exceptions are often [[adverb]]s or [[loanwords]], such as ''amháin4 KB (656 words) - 09:43, 30 December 2011
- ...'' (*cùd, shùd) and '''woùld''' (= '''woòd''' ''tree'') and in the end-of-syllable combinations -'''àlm''', -'''ālf''': '''cālf, hālf, càlm, bàlm, quàl ...y, lîght, clínk, líp, allót, flíp, alône, slêek'''. Dark '''l''' (ending a syllable): '''ålways, stíll, élse, ålso, dóll, fåll, ålter, fåult, píll, cr6 KB (1,087 words) - 12:21, 4 September 2014
- '''khàkì''', either syllable stressed '''[[Arthur Koestler|Köestler]]''', first syllable = BrE '''cürse5 KB (777 words) - 08:06, 30 August 2017
- ...gn]]s is used to write a language systematically (e.g. alphabetically or [[syllable|syllabically]]).2 KB (341 words) - 23:44, 5 June 2009
- In yoga, special one-syllable mantras, called ''biij'' ("seed") mantras, are believed to activate or crea2 KB (321 words) - 06:38, 7 June 2023
- ...witched in a pair of two stressed [[syllables]] for a dactyl's single long syllable in an allowable substitution known as [[contraction (poetry)|contraction]].2 KB (349 words) - 10:46, 1 April 2010
- ...astive in certain positions; in [[German language|German]], for example, [[syllable]]- or [[word]]-final voiced obstruents are disallowed, and in English, the2 KB (348 words) - 06:55, 22 December 2008
- ...ref>Young-Scholten & Archibald (2000; contains a review of studies linking syllable production errors with written language processing).</ref>6 KB (891 words) - 19:58, 19 October 2011
- ...ntains five pairs of syllables, each of which contains first an unstressed syllable and then a stressed one (though most lines actually vary from this pattern2 KB (392 words) - 16:13, 19 October 2010
- | '''[[gu]]''' at syllable ending ||[ɣu~gu]<br>(variation depending on the previous phoneme) ||[ɣu] The [[stress]] may fall on the last syllable, on the last but one syllable or on the antepenult. The way a word is spelled permits to predict where th14 KB (2,084 words) - 12:13, 13 March 2024
- ...lly alphabetical; the first group have one-syllable names, followed by two-syllable, and then three. Exceptions tend to be the norm.6 KB (936 words) - 09:01, 9 August 2023
- ...n the [[polytonic orthography]] of [[Ancient Greek]], where it indicated a syllable with a high [[pitch accent|pitch]]. Modern Greek has a [[stress (linguistic * Modern [[Greek]], where it marks the stressed vowel of every [[syllable|polysyllabic]] word: ''ά'' [a], ''έ'' [ɛ], ''ή'' [i], ''ί'' [i], ''ύ'16 KB (2,527 words) - 16:33, 14 February 2014
- ...[[phonology]] as a segment that cannot occupy the nucleus or 'peak' of a [[syllable]]. Consonants, then, are not just speech sounds, but abstract entities used3 KB (444 words) - 03:31, 7 August 2009
- ...on, pŷthon, sŷphon, decrŷ, supplŷ, applŷ''', and in words of more than one syllable: '''beaûtifŷ, dèifŷ, crûcifŷ, mágnifŷ''', [[British English|BrE]] ' ...ost common use of '''y''' as a vowel: at the end of words of more than one syllable, it is an unstressed and short '''ê''': '''fúnnỳ, síllỳ, jéllỳ, a6 KB (1,096 words) - 10:09, 19 December 2016
- ...es), and [[syllable|syllabic]], in that most characters represent a single syllable, an abstract unit of [[phonology]].<ref>DeFrancis (1984: 187).</ref> Charac ...epresents the [[mora (linguistics)|moras]] of Japanese (units similar to [[syllable]]s). Other words, particularly grammatical particles, are written in anothe9 KB (1,367 words) - 10:12, 28 February 2024
- ...ing' (pronunciation) of the character, and each character represents one [[syllable]].<ref>DeFrancis (1984: 181, 187).</ref> For example, Mandarin 机 'machine ...ssion that Chinese varieties are 'monosyllabic' (i.e. words consist of one syllable); furthermore, the notion of a 'word' was not widely employed in [[Chinese12 KB (1,783 words) - 10:12, 28 February 2024
- *Young-Scholten, M. & J. Archibald (2000). 'Second language syllable structure.' In J. Archibald (ed.) ''Second Language Acquisition and Linguis3 KB (365 words) - 03:26, 23 October 2009
- ...the town in France has the same spelling, but '''à''', and stressed second syllable: *Nàn-cỳ''' '''nécessary''': the stressed syllable is before the single consonant9 KB (1,447 words) - 19:45, 23 June 2017
- ...Donald Shankweiler, F. William Fischer and Bonnie Carter (1974). Explicit syllable and phoneme segmentation in the young child. ''Journal of Experimental Chi3 KB (447 words) - 05:59, 15 October 2013
- ...h sounds, but abstract entities used to build up larger structures, e.g. [[syllable]]s, within an utterance; they can therefore appear in [[written language]]9 KB (1,366 words) - 08:10, 4 September 2010
- # the opening sacred syllable "Om", pronounced AUM.<ref>"Om" is the ''bij'', or seed, mantra for the thir3 KB (576 words) - 12:21, 21 February 2024
- ...'''[[Nigeria|Nigêria]]''' (*Nîjêria) and the river '''Nîger'''. Being a [[syllable-timed language]], French has no [[tonic accent]], so when a new French word4 KB (611 words) - 12:24, 6 May 2017
- ...sticks' or 'bridge'. The [[pitch]] contour of the [[voice]] over the two [[syllable]]s leads to different [[pronunciation]] in many varieties of Japanese, incl4 KB (631 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- The first syllable of the name ''Arne'' (ger.: [ˈaʁnə], dan.: [ˈɑʶnə], engl. often: [æ ...]] translation ''veldu''.</ref> The Proto-Indo-European root of the second syllable is said to be ''*wal-d(h)-'' from the base ''*wal-'' ("to be strong", "to r11 KB (1,521 words) - 10:55, 9 September 2009
- ...on''', silent '''r''' (the cricketer '''[[Ian Botham|Ìan Bôtham]]'''—first syllable as '''bôth'''—was pronounced by some as "Îron Bóttom") ...unciation, though some say Íss- and/or -'''àm''', and/or stress the second syllable9 KB (1,336 words) - 11:16, 25 June 2017
- ...epresents the [[mora (linguistics)|moras]] of Japanese (units similar to [[syllable]]s). These developed from [[Chinese characters|Chinese-derived characters]]5 KB (674 words) - 21:27, 11 January 2013
- *Young-Scholten, M. & J. Archibald (2000). 'Second language syllable structure.' In J. Archibald (ed.) ''Second Language Acquisition and Linguis4 KB (607 words) - 01:12, 17 March 2010
- '''en pássant''' *ompásson - last syllable nasalised '''eschêat''', '''s''' and '''ch''' pronounced separately: second syllable = '''chêat13 KB (1,982 words) - 15:39, 24 June 2017
- ...int'' = '''Jíll''' ''person''), '''gíddy, begín''', and beginning the last syllable in '''Háringèy''' = '''Hárringây'''.5 KB (869 words) - 12:40, 16 January 2017
- In English, Polish '''w''' sounds like '''f''' at the end of a syllable: '''Szymanówski''' (*Shimmanóffsky), '''Zbígniew''' (-nyéff). But it re6 KB (969 words) - 15:22, 23 January 2015
- ...from [[poetry]] where it refers to one or more unstressed extrametrical [[syllable]]s at the beginning of a line.<ref>{{cite web|title=Upbeat|url=www.grovemus7 KB (1,130 words) - 01:23, 23 February 2010
- ...[[katakana]]'' (カタカナ) write [[mora]]s, equivalent to but not the same as [[syllable]]s, and to a degree can indicate [[pronunciation]]. The [[Roman alphabet]],6 KB (925 words) - 00:05, 12 January 2013
- '''Milán''' ''city'', second syllable stressed '''Mìlán''' ''person, football'' *Mêelán, first syllable stressed: boy's name and, from [[Milanese language|Milanese]], can be used21 KB (3,209 words) - 08:09, 5 September 2017
- '''décâde''' ''years'', first syllable stressed, cf. '''decâyed''' ''decay'', second, though some speakers rhyme '''doer''' ''do'' *dûwər, cf. '''doûr''' ''serious'', one syllable16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:34, 26 July 2017
- * In Lemosin Occitan, a vowel followed by ''s'', at the end of a syllable, produces long vowels or diphthongs, in a lot of words: '''as''' [aː], ''' ...ch as ''n, m'' can nasalize more or less a previous vowel, at the end of a syllable, in some dialects (Lemosin, Auvernhat, Vivaro-Alpine, Provençal): ''dança29 KB (4,284 words) - 10:58, 19 August 2022
- ...ex ways to several important social and political ideas: It shares a first syllable (and common Greek origin) with [[anomie]], for example, and is theoreticall7 KB (1,051 words) - 18:31, 13 March 2024
- ...ables, alternating with five unstressed syllables and ending on a stressed syllable, giving the poem a regular and distinctive rhythm. McGonagall's lines never7 KB (1,106 words) - 08:53, 29 February 2024
- '''òutlét''' first syllable stressed7 KB (1,129 words) - 21:26, 26 June 2017
- cf. '''invèigh''', final syllable rhymes: '''convèy AmE, when stressed syllable does not come immediately before it, -'''ãry''' or -éry, cf. -'''ery''';14 KB (2,212 words) - 12:26, 5 July 2017
- ...ighlights Coward and [[Gertrude Lawrence]] as speakers of "fine UPR, every syllable is sounded but some letters (the main vowels) are clipped".<ref name="MB"/>7 KB (1,146 words) - 05:29, 15 May 2023
- '''pāstime''' ''hobby'' one '''s''', one '''t''', one word, stress on first syllable, cf. '''pàss tîme''', even stress ...E verb'': in view of the pronunciation ('''í''', not î, and with the first syllable stressed: *práctíss, never "práctîze") AmE using only the -'''íce''' s21 KB (3,201 words) - 10:25, 21 December 2020
- ...stress can fall on the last, on the second-to-last or on the third-to-last syllable. Each grapheme has a quite easily predictable pronunciation.8 KB (1,260 words) - 11:32, 19 August 2022
- ...like "Faf-erd" but with a throaty [[aspirate]] associated with the second syllable:8 KB (1,279 words) - 11:18, 8 May 2010
- ...ted’ to the rest of the word, can be stressed equally with the other tonic syllable, as '''rê'''-, in verbs: '''rêcáp, rêdesîgn, rêdo, rêwrîte, rêplâ8 KB (1,297 words) - 07:16, 10 April 2014
- ...of ''t'' or ''d'' where these occur between vowels and in an unstressed [[syllable]] of North American English, e.g. ''city'' or ''butter''. This sound is kno9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:35, 15 February 2010
- ! Number of verses & syllable metres | 3 verses, 7+9 syllable metre29 KB (4,529 words) - 09:17, 29 March 2024
- ...n and its eastern dialects) /'a/ if there is a back vowel in the following syllable, and /e/ if there is a front vowel. For example, 'white' (sing. - plur.) so ...t) is pronounced {{IPA|/mɛnadʒ'mɛnt/}} with the stress falling on the last syllable.34 KB (4,761 words) - 02:55, 8 October 2013
- ...heŵ''' the '''s''' is pronounced separately fronm the '''ch''': the second syllable is identical to the word '''cheŵ'''.)8 KB (1,447 words) - 09:55, 8 August 2016
- ...rifîce, devîce, advîce''' but -'''íce''' usually in words of more than one syllable: '''pôultíce, crévíce, nótíce, láttíce, Véníce, hóspíce, órif�8 KB (1,392 words) - 09:48, 13 August 2016
- ...''' separates the '''i''' from the preceding '''ê''', making the '''í''' a syllable: *vê-í-kle – or as a schwa: *vêəkle, *víəkle. And in names like ''9 KB (1,572 words) - 09:23, 18 July 2017
- ...], [[Slovak language|Slovak]] or [[Czech language|Czech]], or even on each syllable, as in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] or [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]].8 KB (1,135 words) - 14:24, 11 November 2012
- |'''pláteaux''' (*plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE)10 KB (1,559 words) - 00:45, 9 February 2024
- ...'' and a long ''a'' indifferently. There follows a listing of words of one syllable (68 total), two syllables (8 in number), three syllables (10), four syllabl9 KB (1,518 words) - 09:55, 11 February 2010
- '''uu''' is very rare and can be pronounced as one syllable -yû-, as usually in '''vácûum''', or as two syllables -yû(w)ù-, as in9 KB (1,523 words) - 17:07, 15 February 2016
- *Few or no [[syllable]]s closed by final consonants (e.g. English ''tin'');9 KB (1,391 words) - 09:17, 2 March 2024
- ...ller number of names: '''MácIlvoy, McEnroe'''. In the latter the stressed syllable is an invisible '''á''': *Máckənrô.10 KB (1,667 words) - 13:43, 22 March 2016
- ...(or a vowel-drenched '''r''' in [[American English|AmE]]), there is no new syllable: '''cān't, shān't, àren't, wëren't, dãren't'''.9 KB (1,509 words) - 09:22, 11 February 2016
- ...'eindklankverscherping''), meaning that voiced consonants cannot appear in syllable-final position. Thus, the word ''paard'' 'horse' is pronounced [pa:rt], wit10 KB (1,485 words) - 20:37, 15 March 2017
- ...ndomly generated series of syllables spoken in a variety of accents, a two-syllable pair that can be liberally interpreted as 'Satan' is very easy to generate.10 KB (1,605 words) - 12:42, 11 July 2023
- '''l''' doubled after stressed syllable: BrE and AmE '''rebélled11 KB (1,732 words) - 19:33, 6 July 2017
- ...tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây'''; cf. '''Bàhrain'''. *'''towårds''' was traditionally pronounced as one syllable (*tårds) but is now usually two (*təwårds)24 KB (3,611 words) - 16:37, 26 May 2017
- ...also possible for [[syllabary|syllabaries]], where [[symbol]]s indicate [[syllable]]s rather than individual phonemes.</ref> or groups of letters with distinc13 KB (2,069 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- ...phonological components: for example, English ''cat'' appears as a single syllable arranging the [[phonetic segment|segment]]s [k], [æ]<ref>Pronounced 'ash'.30 KB (4,400 words) - 14:17, 18 February 2024
- ...first=Libby |last=Copleand |title = President's Sin of Omission? (Dropped Syllable in Speech Riles Democrats) | date = [[2007-01-25]] | url = http://www.washi14 KB (2,063 words) - 15:04, 15 April 2024
- cf. ''wither'' '''sêar''', one diphthong, one syllable: *sêeər, two syllables ''see'' '''sêer13 KB (2,002 words) - 18:55, 2 August 2017
- ...first=Libby |last=Copleand |title = President's Sin of Omission? (Dropped Syllable in Speech Riles Democrats) | date = [[2007-01-25]] | url = http://www.washi14 KB (2,080 words) - 15:04, 15 April 2024
- ...e traditional English pronunciation, though the Spanish stresses the first syllable '''chîropractic''' k-, first syllable = '''Caîro32 KB (4,846 words) - 14:57, 17 August 2017
- ...] with '''Árran''' (but widely mispronounced with the stress on the second syllable, perhaps by analogy with '''[[Amman|Ammàn]]''')<ref name="Crossette">{{Cit '''Ássád''', first syllable stressed, making a minimal pair with '''ácid'''25 KB (3,975 words) - 21:48, 24 May 2017
- ...tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây14 KB (2,152 words) - 12:25, 24 July 2017
- ...the French pronunciation, peekay; either is usually accented on the second syllable. The French terminology used nowadays is a 19th-century reversion: earlier19 KB (3,151 words) - 05:50, 29 October 2019
- ...syllables is pronounced with a somewhat greater stress of voice. ... This syllable is said to be ''accented''."), emphasis ("A word is said to be ''emphasized30 KB (4,982 words) - 22:42, 8 February 2024
- '''Rôosevelt''', first syllable = '''rôse15 KB (2,228 words) - 14:59, 28 May 2017
- ...''' ''bird'' = '''Rhêa''' ''moon'' (-êə, two syllables, cf. '''sêa''', one syllable). It is optionally schwa, however, in '''cínemà'''/'''cínema''', and it15 KB (2,623 words) - 12:05, 10 August 2017
- either syllable stressed ''noun = verb'' '''fînánce words of one syllable: -'''y''' = -'''îe36 KB (5,897 words) - 19:42, 22 August 2017
- First syllable: '''agô, ahéad, abòut, again''' (*əgén), '''abòve''', '''upón'' Second syllable: '''ígnorance, pébble, doùble, Chîna, sêater, víctor, bürsar,42 KB (7,225 words) - 15:50, 28 April 2017
- '''lëarned''' as an attributive adjective gains a syllable: '''a''' *lëarníd '''mán16 KB (2,462 words) - 13:05, 5 July 2017
- ...[[katakana]]'' (カタカナ) write [[mora]]s, equivalent to but not the same as [[syllable]]s, and to a degree can indicate [[pronunciation]]. The [[Roman alphabet]],16 KB (2,479 words) - 17:32, 11 March 2024
- ...postvocalic’ '''r''', that is to say '''r''' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English but pronounced in American English, in words ...'''móral''' can in American English sound to British ears almost like one syllable: *mŏrrl.61 KB (9,656 words) - 09:17, 2 March 2024
- ...ped into a separate language from [[Vulgar Latin]], the unstressed final [[syllable]] of many words was dropped or elided into the following word.20 KB (2,914 words) - 19:11, 7 September 2023
- ...tnamese language. As in Chinese, a semantic meaning is attributed to every syllable. This characteristic of the language may be can considered a result of the21 KB (3,143 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- *At the end of a syllable, the phoneme {{IPA|/l/}} has the velarized allophone {{IPA|[ɫ]}} in Europe ...een the position of the stress and the final vowel; for example, the final syllable is usually stressed when it contains a nasal phoneme, a diphthong, or a [[c42 KB (6,080 words) - 10:09, 28 February 2024
- .... I use whichever sounds better, which is usually determined by the first syllable of the next word, though I'd have to think about it to figure out which pro27 KB (4,310 words) - 05:02, 8 March 2024
- '''Sharapôva''' (in English, though the second syllable is stressed in Russian)28 KB (4,274 words) - 09:25, 18 July 2017
- ...g|left|200px|alt=diagram of a hand.|The [[dactyl]] is composed of one long syllable followed by two short syllables; it is a prominent part in the type of poet33 KB (5,558 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- Maine is the only U.S. state to have a name one syllable long; all other 49 states have at least two syllables.30 KB (4,509 words) - 10:49, 15 July 2023
- ...a stress accent, and in later Greek all of these accents mark the stressed syllable. The breathings are the spiritus asper ({{Unicode|῾}}), marking an [h] so41 KB (4,965 words) - 19:19, 18 February 2024
- ...quired by the metre is "ôkay", though the '''K''' is normally the stressed syllable: '''okây'''.</ref>29 KB (5,292 words) - 18:48, 13 April 2017
- ...hat he had just patented. Understandably, it was soon shortened to a three-syllable word rhyming with "pike" and then abbreviated either to "sticky" or the moc49 KB (8,041 words) - 03:42, 11 September 2019
- |clêeshây ([[American English|AmE]] stresses 2nd syllable) |pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE63 KB (10,748 words) - 20:33, 4 May 2017
- ...ert's lyrics employ punning, as well as complex internal and two and three-syllable rhyme schemes, and served as a model for such 20th century [[Broadway theat55 KB (8,736 words) - 11:40, 22 March 2024
- ...er said he "would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it was not said –68 KB (10,486 words) - 15:04, 15 April 2024
- ...non-rhotic, so that the sound {{IPA|[ɹ]}} does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city as "80 KB (12,186 words) - 14:52, 15 April 2024
- ...ced as if it was spelled "Rosavelt." That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was "Rose." This letter can be found on pages 534-535 of the Theod65 KB (10,196 words) - 12:14, 13 March 2024