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syllable
  1. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
  2. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
  3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The normally-stressed vowel is deleted, with stress shifted back to the initial syllable.”
      “The politicians uttered barely a syllable of politics.”
syllabary
  1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
  2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue.”
      “Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.”
      “Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.”
syllabism
  1. (linguistics) The expression of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This latent syllabism, which underlies the alphabetism of the hieroglyphic writing, indicates with sufficient clearness the origin of the Egyptian alphabet.”
syllabicity
  1. The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Seymour et al. have shown that simple and complex syllabicity affects decoding and orthographic depth affects both word and pseudoword reading.”
      “Sievers' Law and the history of semivowel syllabicity in Indo-European and ancient Greek.”
syllabication
  1. The act of syllabifying; syllabification.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “However, syllabication serves an important role in writing instruction, providing the writer with a basic formula and starting point.”
      “Switch off the automatic syllabication of your programme and do not insert hyphens to divide syllables at the end of the line.”
      “Turning to the Portuguese language case, considerable advances have been reported concerning automatic syllabication for TTS systems.”
syllabogram
  1. A symbol that represents a syllable.
syllabist
  1. One who forms or divides words into syllables.
syllabification
  1. the division of a word into syllables.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His attention is called to syllabification as well as to diacritical marks.”
      “When the system encounters a new word, it compares its structure to the known words in order to determine the correct syllabification.”
      “AndrĂ© Hamer Prize, will test and compare the performance of existing algorithms for automatic syllabification.”
syllabicness
  1. The quality of being syllabic.
syllabation
syllabe
  1. Obsolete form of syllable.
syllabarium
  1. A syllabary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Like Doala, too, he had a language adapted to a syllabarium.”
syllabic
  1. (linguistics) A syllabic sound.
syllabifications
syllabications
syllabaria
  1. plural of syllabarium
syllabariums
  1. plural of syllabarium
syllabograms
  1. plural of syllabogram
  2. Examples:
    1. “As long as the signs LUGAL and SA are not used as syllabograms outside the words sarru and libbu it is not advisable to write these words with sar and lib.”
      “It contains excellent palaeographic studies, tables of syllabograms, and catalogues of Fara-period texts, bibliographies to individual tablets, and much more.”
syllabists
  1. plural of syllabist
syllabisms
  1. plural of syllabism
syllabaries
syllabics
  1. plural of syllabic
syllables
  1. plural of syllable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The teacher then modulated the intonational contour until it corresponded to the first syllables of the word paleontologist.”
      “From the way she pronounces the words, from how she runs syllables together so oddly, I guess that she doesn't understand what she sings.”
      “The schema would consist of an initial strong syllable followed by an unspecified number of weak syllables.”
syllabes
  1. plural of syllabe
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