multisyllabic word

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With regard to multisyllabic words, it can be assumed that these words, on average, are characterized by greater stimulus ambiguity than monosyllabic words.
The itemisation of her stress patterns in multisyllabic words is not helpful without knowledge of the target forms that she is attempting.
The authors also note that between the ages of 1; 8 and 1;10, the majority of fillers occurred before monosyllabic rather than multisyllabic words.
They consisted of one to four syllables of which 78% (178 words) were multisyllabic words.
They also found that the difficulty occurred when the article preceded multisyllabic words.
This account addresses syllable omissions from phrases as well as from multisyllabic words.
The word list was composed of bi- and multisyllabic words with a maximum of five syllables.
Transposition of phonemes was seen in multisyllabic words.
Moreover, by looking further ' behind ' focused parts of multisyllabic words, the same pattern of regularities may be spotted there as well.
It is suggested that, unlike multisyllabic words but similar to letters and numbers, monosyllabic words act as relatively holistic stimuli, which are recognized as sight words.
Multisyllabic words in particular seem to pose a problem for beginning language learners, since one or more syllables of the target word often goes unpronounced.
In the past, syllables in multisyllabic words were concatenated with hyphens, but this practice had died out, and hyphenation is now reserved for foreign borrowings.
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