Syllable
Syllable This article discusses the unit of speech. For the computer operating system, see Syllable (operating system). A syllable (Ancient Greek: ) is a unit of organization ... It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional ... A word that consists of a single syllable (like English cat) is called a ...
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Syllable (Psychology wiki)
Syllable Home Support Help Site Support Orientation Background ... Transpersonal World Language Linguistics Semiotics Speech A syllable ( Ancient Greek : ) is a unit of organization ... It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional ... A word that consists of a single syllable (like English cat) is called a monosyllable ... disyllable (such a word is disyllabic). [edit] Syllable structure The general structure of a ...
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Length   (translated from German)
Length Under Length (of old-high-German lengi) one understands ... of an object in a direction, see Length (physics) in mathematics the length of a curve, see Away (mathematics) more highly Stature (a man of stately length) Detailedness (it writes letters with substantial ...
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Vowel length
Vowel length In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel ... distinctive in most dialects of English, vowel length is an important phonemic factor in many ... Chinese. Most languages do not distinguish vowel length, and for those that do, usually the ... phoenix" or Estonian jäääär "ice edge". Vowel length and related features Stress is often ...
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Long syllable
Long syllable A long syllable is one that is emphasized, or stressed ... some scholars) no stress accent, and so syllable length had much the same role in Greek ... English. In Greek or Latin a long syllable is one which contains a long ...
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Length (phonetics)
Length (phonetics) In phonetics, length or quantity is a feature of sounds ... geminates). Many languages do not have distinctive length. Among the languages that have distinctive length, there are only a few that have both distinctive vowel length and distinctive consonant length. It is ...
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Talk:Syllable
Talk:Syllable This article is part of WikiProject Theoretical ... tled. I substituted strength, which is one syllable. —Triskaideka 15:20, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC ... feet? discuss difficulty of defining the term syllable mention older definitions (like "chest pulses", etc.) add diagram of syllable tree how to determine syllable boundaries - Ish ishwar 18:57, 2005 ...
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Talk:Vowel length
Talk:Vowel length Australian English In Australian English it is vowel length (not in the traditional but the phonetic ... article page. The phonemic nature of vowel length in AusE and NZE is worth a ... any more: see Talk: Australian English. Vowel length and other features An anonymous commenter has ... section (renamed accordingly) of the article: Vowel length is perceptively the most direct way ...
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... of the longest English words with one syllable
... of the longest English words with one syllable The longest English word of one syllable (in some dialects) is the ten-letter ... long word for being only a single syllable. It is a largely obsolete form of ... crunched. Both of these two "longest one-syllable word" claims are questionable, subject to variations ... carted etc.), while readily pronounceable as one syllable in all dialects ("broomed"), is yet ...
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Talk:Japanese language/archive001
... Fay. The statement "In Japanese, a stressed syllable is merely pronounced at a higher pitch ... a few exceptions, are pronounced with equal length and loudness." Of course long syllables are ... guess the intended meaning is that the length of a syllable is not varied in order to create ... use the technical term "mora," instead of syllable. I added Rendaku to the See ...
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