syllabic

syllable | American Dictionary

syllable
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɪl·ə·bəl/
a single unit of speech, in English usually containing a vowel, consisting of either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word is separated when it is spoken or printed:
There are two syllables in the word silver and three in appetite.

Examples of syllable

syllable
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single coda consonant is stressed.
At the same time, stressed syllables are more 'powerful' than unstressed ones.
The best way to elicit a schwa is to direct attention away from it and on to the stressed syllable of the word.
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
The second factor was identified as short-term verbal memory and included final syllable deletion in both languages.
The target-bearing words varied in length from one to three syllables.
Their length varied between 11 and 17 syllables.
Target syllables with short vowels represented 42 % of the total number of closed target syllables.
Target words containing short vowels and /l/ codas were produced as open syllables with diphthongs.
Finally, we do not specify the syllable structure precisely.
Acoustic features do not capture the dimensions of the space where syllables live.
The definitions of di- and trisyllables numbers the syllables from the right.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withsyllable

syllable

These are words often used in combination with syllable.

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extra syllable
Each extra syllable beyond 1 shortens the vowel nucleus by 35 msec, and vowels before voiceless stops are expected to be shorter by 24 msec.
final syllable
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
initial syllable
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
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