transcription delimiters. A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel)...

Hangul Syllables is a Unicode block containing precomposed Hangul syllable blocks for modern Korean. The syllables can be directly mapped by algorithm...

a typical word a minor syllable is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may be of the form /Cə/...

stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is...

In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime. In classical...

to or shorter than a syllable. For example, a short syllable such as he consists of one mora (monomoraic), while a long syllable such as hee consists...

Three alternative ways in which a language can divide time are postulated syllable-timed, mora-timed, and stress-timed. Real world languages do not fit quite...

In computing, a syllable is a name for a platform-dependent unit of information storage. Depending on the target hardware, various bit widths (and sometimes...

Look up syllable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. Syllable may also refer to:...

solmization, though the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Syllables are assigned to the notes of the scale and assist the musician in audiating...

Ballistic syllables are a phonemic distinction in Otomanguean languages: Chinantec and Amuzgo. They have been described as characterized with increased...

Syllable Desktop is a discontinued free and open-source lightweight hobbyist operating system for Pentium and compatible processors. Its purpose was to...

Yi Syllables is a Unicode block containing the 1,165 characters (1,164 phonemic syllables plus 1 syllable iteration mark) of the Liangshan Standard Yi...

categorize entries in some Chinese dictionaries. In pinyin, each Chinese syllable is spelled in terms of an optional initial and a final, each of which is...

A one-syllable article (Chinese: 同音文章; pinyin: Tóngyīn wénzhāng) is a type of constrained writing found in Chinese literature. It takes advantage of the...

some Slavic languages /l/ and /r/ are used alongside vowels as syllable nuclei. Syllables have the following internal segmental structure: Onset (optional)...

hūm̐ (Sanskrit: ॐ मणिपद्मे हूँ, IPA: [õːː mɐɳɪpɐdmeː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari...

that tonal languages can have each syllable with an independent tone whilst pitch-accent languages may have one syllable in a word or morpheme that is more...

This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables...

romanized: Oṃ, Auṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism. Its written representation is the...

achievement. A logatome or nonsense syllable is a short pseudoword consisting most of the time of just one syllable which has no meaning of its own. Examples...

low-tone syllables, raising their pitch to a level just below that of adjacent high-tone syllables. A toneless syllable between a high-tone syllable and another...

Semi-syllable may refer to: minor syllable, in phonology a glyph of a semi-syllabary, in orthography Syllable (disambiguation) Syllabic (disambiguation)...

Among other things, most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and...

the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful (f.)"). This terminology was...

typically consist of from one to many as eight individual morphemes or syllables; the majority of Vietnamese vocabulary are disyllabic and trisyllabic...

two syllables, the emphasis will be on the first syllable. In a word with more than two syllables, there are two cases. If the second-to-last syllable is...

the term bīja is used for mystical "seed syllables" contained within mantras or standalone seed syllable mantras (bijamantra). These seeds do not have...

stand alone as their own syllable. In Mandarin much more than in other spoken varieties, most syllables tend to be open syllables, meaning they have no coda...

tones applied to each syllable. In addition to its four main tones, Standard Chinese has a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables. This article uses...