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syllableSegment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable. Closed (checked) syllables end in a consonant, open (free) syllables in a vowel. Syllables play an important role in the study of speech and in phonetics and phonology. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 80) The use of "Babel" rather than "Babylon" in several translations of Psalm 137 (the Countess of Pembroke's quoted above, Edwin Sandys', and Wither's, for example) may echo the early "history" of the city in Genesis 11, though the disyllabic name may sometimes also just be a metrical convenience. Women," on the other hand, is disyllabic and is stressed on its first syllable. |
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