syllable
'Masterpiece' shares the same syllabic beat as 'MasterCard'.
These chants tend to be mainly syllabic, although interspersed with occasional neumes of two or even three tones.
From the phonetic point of view, syllabic boundaries may be merged to different extents.
Vowel is a lay term which is ambiguous in so far as it can refer either to a sound's syllabic position or to its phonetic quality.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
-athon
affix
affixation
agglutinate
agglutinative
analytic
contraction
interfix
ion
ism
libfix
monomorphemic
monosyllabic
morpheme
suffix
syllabify
synthetic
that'd
that'll
that's

Examples of syllabic

syllabic
In other words, they are similar across a number of critical linguistic criteria: verbal complementation, do support, syllabic structure, and phonemic contrast (p. 233).
Figure 8 displays the regional pattern of one of the conditioning factors for syllabic 0 l 0: that is, preceding consonant.
Certainly they are shorter and more syllabic, but when note values are quartered they look just as elaborate rhythmically.
The acquisition of word stress is well documented and researchers have drawn attention to metrical restrictions for stress patterns of bisyllabic and multi-syllabic words.
The syllabic licensing of the nasal as part of a nucleus allows nasal vowels to be (randomly) distributed throughout words.
One of our main goals in this work was to study the relationship between children's spellings of syllabic /r/ and their spellings of letter-name vowels.
One governs how individual consonants and vowels are grouped into syllables (syllabic structures).
This is turn avoids a potential anomaly whereby non-branching structure would have to be deemed unmarked in all syllabic constituents but marked in feet.
They do propose a constraint that requires corresponding consonants to be in the same syllabic position, however.
The usual way of representing syllabic consonants relies on their functional status : since they behave like vowels, they are found in nuclei.
For both regular plurals and third person agreement, phonological ability predicted judgments on the single phoneme realizations, and not on the syllabic realization.
Memory for nonwords also was excluded because one might retain them in terms of separate phonemic or syllabic series even if they are monosyllabic.
Actually word breaks are allowed at certain positions that depend on syllabic and morphological structure, but this does not concern us here.
Participants produced and gave perceptual judgments on 40 non-words of varying syllabic structures in noun and verb sentence frames.
In the non-moraic syllabic account, this initial vowel has a syllable but lacks a mora.
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