syllable structure

collocation in English

meanings of syllableand structure

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syllable
noun[C]
uk /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ us /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/
a single unit of speech, either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word can be separated, usually containing ...
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structure
noun
uk /ˈstrʌk.tʃər/ us /ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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Examples of syllable structure

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It may be that syllablestructure may not play a role in the organization of lexical representations, but may influence the organization of phonological representations.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllablestructure.
Finally, we do not specify the syllablestructure precisely.
Among the 30 target /nonword sequences, 20 sequences had a syllablestructure that was compatible, and 10 sequences had a structure that was not.
In this manner, visual similarity with real words was lost, but we could test graphemeto-phoneme correspondence if the syllablestructure was kept constant.
Unlike many areas of linguistic theory, in the domain of syllablestructure, the data are relatively uncontroversial.
It was natural, therefore, that syntactic structure should possess features reminiscent of syllablestructure.
Metathesis, the repositioning of segments within a word, has been neglected in analyses of interlanguage syllablestructure.
Rules are not allowed the same device, and neither syllablestructure available before or after application of rewrite rules will cause the desired ambiguity.
This is illustrated in detail for various aspects of syllablestructure : onset, rhymes, and stress.
A word-list was constructed for each language containing minimally contrastive forms illustrating the syllablestructure differences of interest.
Only the head foot is built on lower-level projections from syllablestructure in which the distinction between light and heavy syllables is maintained.
Nothing depends on these details of syllablestructure, however.
Furthermore, it has a simple syllablestructure and clear syllable boundaries.
The latter are usually single syllables that have the same syllablestructure as is found in lexical items.
A listener-oriented explanation for durational cues to juncture suggests that the articulatory timing routines giving rise to such cues may be independent of syllablestructure.
Specifically, the early acquisition of allophonic variation with syllablestructure may indicate that stop aspiration duration is specified within the word.
In contrast to the allophonic juncture cue, the durational cue does not appear to be acquired with syllablestructure.
For multi-word utterances, the syllablestructure is embedded in a simple phrase structure.
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