noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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If there is no stressed syllable in the tail, the rise happens on the final syllable.
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If the final syllable is of this type, the stress will usually be placed on the first syllable.
single
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In a one-syllable utterance, the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter.
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We will begin by looking at intonation in the shortest piece of speech we can find - the single syllable .
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The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis.
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Here is a list of single tonic syllables .
stressed
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It is written in basic pentameter with exactly ten stressed syllables in every single line.
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The prominent syllable is called a stressed syllable.
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It follows that if there is no stressed syllable before the tonic syllable, there can not be a head.
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The keys for lexical access are stressed syllables in the word corresponding to the input syllable type.
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If there is no stressed syllable in the tail, the rise happens on the final syllable.
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They don't need to hear every syllable - if they hear most of the stressed syllables that will be enough.
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The stressed syllable is spoken louder, and the rest of the word often has a falling intonation.
strong
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The distribution of strong and weak syllables is a subject that will be met in several later chapters.
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Elision is a closely related subject, and in considering intonation the difference between strong and weak syllables is also important.
tonic
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There are quite a few situations where it is normal for the tonic syllable to come earlier in the tone-unit.
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In a tone-unit of more than one syllable , the tonic syllable must have one of those tones.
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The first thing to be done is to make more precise the role of the tonic syllable in the tone-unit.
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It follows that if there is no stressed syllable before the tonic syllable, there can not be a head.
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Any syllables between the tonic syllable and the end of the tone-unit are called the tail.
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It is therefore necessary to say in this particular case that the tonic syllable is identified simply as the most prominent syllable.
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From now on, a syllable which carries a tone will be called a tonic syllable.
unstressed
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These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable .
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The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables .
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In one sense, the error to be noted is the unstressed syllable rather than the others: plain for plane is understandable.
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It is usual for unstressed syllables to continue the pitch of the stressed syllable that precedes them.
weak
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The distribution of strong and weak syllables is a subject that will be met in several later chapters.
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Elision is a closely related subject, and in considering intonation the difference between strong and weak syllables is also important.
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In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables .
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Not all weak syllables contain, though many do.
■ VERB
pronounce
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And so, Janir, pronounced Ja-NEER: two syllables put together on a park bench on the day of his birth.
represent
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The systems in this category contain an inventory of symbols called a syllabary to represent the individual syllables of speech.
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The term morphosyllabic is meant to suggest that they do so via the intermediary of some element representing a syllable .
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The assumption that each character represents an independent meaningful syllable leads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in words of one syllable
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Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
weak consonant/syllable
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Elision is a closely related subject, and in considering intonation the difference between strong and weak syllables is also important.
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In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables.
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Not all weak syllables contain, though many do.
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The distribution of strong and weak syllables is a subject that will be met in several later chapters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a one-syllable utterance, the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter.
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In some of them it is the tone of every syllable which is contrastive and therefore important.
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The assumption that each character represents an independent meaningful syllable leads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.
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The first thing to be done is to make more precise the role of the tonic syllable in the tone-unit.
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There are quite a few situations where it is normal for the tonic syllable to come earlier in the tone-unit.
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Virtually every syllable of Kerans' testimony, it turns out, is demonstrably false.
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We will not consider words with stems of more than two syllables.
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When the stem has two syllables the stress is sometimes on the first, sometimes on the second syllable of the stem.