syllable

The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.

Not one of them could fly an inch, though even Michael was in words of two syllables, and Peter did not know A from Z.

They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.

She pronounced the syllables of the name with a peculiar clearness, as if she had tapped on two silver bells.

At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth.

The total number of Chinese syllables is only a little over 400 while that of English is difficult to imagine.

Ballad meter is usually iambic. The number of unstressed syllables in each line may vary. The second and fourth lines rhyme.

Say the vowel sound quickly and with your mouth almost closed, but pronounce the consonant sounds in these syllables distinctly.

I just have my own little language, I add on little words and syllables and stuff just for the heck of it.

Of an affair with a White Russian officer in Jiamusi . Forlorn but lilting syllables All the matrons cursed her in every city .

There are two areas where vowels are reduced. One is inside words that have two or more syllables.

The issues of syllables and syllabification have always been the focus of syllabic theories in the current main-stream phonologies.

Reiterative locution refers to repetition of the same syllables with equivalent meaning , which are often closely used .

Scripts where symbols matched consonants or syllables allowed you to exchange symbols for sounds.

The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.

The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.

The libretto , mostly numbers, solfege syllables and quirky , stream-of-consciousness spoken texts, works its own hypnotic spell.

With this set of implanted blueprints, we now can recall individual sounds upon demand and pronounce simple syllables.

The vowel change of -ae- to -i- in Latin is due to a Latin phonetic rule involving unaccented syllables in compounds.

Abbreviations of frequently used double-syllables are the major part of Chinese Braille abbreviation plan.

They had 66 volunteers listen to a male voice saying all four syllables against background noise that made it hard to distinguish them.

The reduplication of Chinese classifiers depends on both meaning and number of syllables.

Like all such computer voices, its cadence can sound robotic, and it clips some syllables, but I found it perfectly understandable.

For languages like English, symbols that represent individual sounds are much more economical than symbols that represent whole syllables .

metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.

Fourth, Sketch seek process and carry out a grouping on these syllables.

These letters and sounds connect not only with Y, but they do so as well with the initial unwritten [y] sound of syllables and words.

The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.

Native speakers of English listen for the STRESSED syllables, not the weak syllables.

Instead of making sounds randomly, mice tend to repeat certain syllables a number of times, then shift to a different syllable.

Both syllables are pronounced as a first tone, but the second syllable is a bit lower in pitch than the first tone.

If possible, keep the name to one or two syllables.

Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name -nothing can ever be the same now the Immortals are here.

The syllables of English language have different properties, tile rhythm of English poetry, therefore, has different features.

Usually a word is expressed with two characters or two syllables in modern Chinese.

In speech, the "aspirated" syllables "pa" and "ta" are accompanied by a puff of exhaled air, whereas "ba" and "da" are not.

groups of syllables that are considered to have spiritual power.

Placenames is special. Though the two syllables is a simper, but the two syllables are lack of enough distinct function.

Words are made up of many syllables or sounds that arise and pass away consecutively.

"By the time you get past 6 months of age, babies begin to produce canonical babbling, well-formed syllables, " Professor Oller said.

Chinese double-syllables can also be abbreviated by adding an additional cell ahead of or behind the key cell.

A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations.

The second contains thirty-eight words of ninety syllables: eighteen of those words are from Latin roots, and one from Greek.

Then, having demolished my adolescent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind.

Notes on Chinese Syllables is an important work on the modern Chinese pronunciation.

Long bended syllables are not often seen in blues tunes, so I never found the problem before.

having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables.

The "slowest" language, Mandarin, partly thanks to the four tones, has around 2000 possible syllables, far more than Japanese or Spanish.

the difficulties mainly are syllables, phonemes, phonetics, grammar and the honorific language's proper use.

There is no common boundary at which the syllables join, but each is separate and distinct from the rest.

A short, simple melody in which a number of syllables or words are sung on or intoned to the same note.

Taiwanese English learners tend to lengthen the syllables in the focus words to achieve the task of elongating the focus words.

This paper discusses especially the colour problem for 3 syllables words, from the angle of both colours of dominance and recessiveness .

Many such words contain three or more than three syllables; most of them are of Greek or Latin origin.

Tones refer to pitch differences in the pronunciation of the syllables. Each syllable has a tone.

But think of the awkward syllables when you have to say motorcycle.

Comes out of the seed-syllables of mantras.

Look at line number four, which is so clearly -- simply by looking at this, you can tell it's deficient in the number of syllables.

Having a metrically complete pattern, especially having the full number of syllables in the final foot. Used of verse.

And the lyrics don't make any sense--they consist of syllables used in Peking Opera.

The first contains forty-nine words but only sixty syllables, and all its words are those of everyday life.

metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot.

That speech is a quantity is evident: for it is measured in long and short syllables.

Then they jumbled up syllables within each song and replayed these versions to the birds.

A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

However when I was practicing light music recently, long bended syllables is not in concordance because of its tone color.

Then, having demolished my adolscent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind.

the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.

With nine letter and four syllables, the tongue-twisting "phenomenon" has been named as the most mispronounced word in the English language.

ATON is the first two syllables of a name that takes about half a sheet of paper to write it down.

Likewise, CBA goes from three syllables to 10 in Chinese, a much wordier 'China men's basketball professional league. '

The first line of a Haiku has five syllables.

Foot: It is a rhythmic unit, a specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Repetition of certain sounds or syllables in poetry, as in echo verse.

They require little effort, yet these few syllables can enliven someone else's day.

Okay, it was really fine. Three syllables. Keep the change.

those languages that need more syllables to convey the same story sound faster.

a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters.

Listen and repeat . Make the stressed syllables strong , and the unstressed syllables weak and quick .

The last line has five syllables again.

having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables.

nonsense syllables; a nonsensical jumble of words.

a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables.

Those syllables are louder, longer and higher. The stress comes on the most important word or words in a sentence.

Words with one, two, three y or more syllables.

rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses.

This is a kind of structure in which each line has ten syllables or beats with a stress on every second beat.

English, with a high information density of . 91, is spoken at an average rate of 6. 19 syllables per second.

The syllables that are not stressed are weak or small or quiet.

based on the duration of syllables rather than on stress. Used especially of classical Greek and Latin verse.

To do the same thing with symbols that represent syllables , we'd need about eight thousand signs.

Mandarin, which topped the density list at . 94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5. 18 syllables per second.

connecting syllables and words by hyphens.

Then, haveing demolished my adolscent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind.

Between these wheels, 88 Sanskrit syllables are placed (not depicted here).

Sally Sue sat sadly saying sixty-six syllables to silly Sandy.

At the same time as some of the syllables, they delivered a puff of air to the hand or neck.

Campion is also notable because of his experiments with metres based on counting syllables rather than stresses.

Clipped words are created by dropping one or more syllables from a polysyllabic word; a word of several syllables.

Please divide this word into syllables.

Since Tangxi dialect's original tone system did not have a high level tone, IVA syllables became their own tone type [55].

Each line has a set number of syllables.

Don't put in extra syllables after consonants.

(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity.

Fill in the blanks with the syllables you hear.

a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines.

The words, the pauses, the syllables, the phones, and even some subphonemic events are located in the recorded signal.

metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot .

A poem having eight syllables in each line.

As for IVB syllables' merger, the former tone system had two tones fairly close to [212], tone IB [313] and tone IIIB [14].

Under the Japanese colonial rule, Taiwan and Japan shared many cultural legacies, such as five-seven syllables ballads and pentatonic scale.

When you say four words, you mean syllables?

a verse line having ten syllables.

Here it is with the syllables clearly shown.

"Conversation" , a word with four syllables. Do you want some ice before your brain overheats?

I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five.

She dispatched a lot of news and wisdom in very few syllables.

In the pinyin system, finals end with syllables of sound. There are 39 such finals.

Faster speakers are better at immediate price recall because they can fit more syllables into the phonological loop.

How many syllables are there in this word?

The first syllables from their names form a line that reads "Beijing Huanying Ni" , or in English "Welcome to Beijing" .

The haiku, a poem of just 17 syllables, for example, makes scant sense as standalone verse.

The strongest have just one or two syllables, with stress on the second syllable to propel the rhythm forward.

Contrastive Study of the Musical Beauty Between Chinese and English Syllables

But the number of syllables that will have been spoken in that amount of time varies;

monosyllabic adjectives became new roots of diplophonia adjectives and generate a series of new words with syllables being doubled;

Correspondence Rules of the Initials of syllables in Baoji Dialect and Standard Chinese

On the Historical Effect of Lengthening Single Syllable into Dual Syllables in Ancient Chinese Development

The "Cotai" part of the new plot's name comes from the first syllables of the two islands;

Its reform should starts with such six aspects as the development and refinement of experimental curriculum and syllables;

Research on the Abbreviation of Uni-syllables in Currently-used Chinese Braille

polysyllabic: having more than three syllables

Illustrating Syllables and Phonemes of Manchu Letters

Design of Mongolian Syllables Dividing Software

On the Features of Chinese Syllables and Japanese Syllables

Shortened Finals of Chinese Syllables and Application for Hanzi Input

Verbs Attached with Syllable or Syllables in Kam-Dai Languages

Syllables in Modern Japanese and Their Teaching

Application of original imitative elements in syllables toward TCSL

A blank verse is verse written in lines of usual ten syllables without rhyme

The Evolvement of Nasal Initials of Syllables in Jin Dialect

Slowly in silent syllables recorded;

The forming of four syllables adjectives in Yuanqu

J-pinyin: A New Japanese Transcription System of Chinese Syllables

In vocal music it is usual to use separate flags for separate syllables;

TTRNN based recognition of mandarin whole syllables

The Durational Patterns of Syllables in Standard Chinese

Fewer short syllables before or after the hyphen

And, lashed to syllables, the lynx tongue cry

Theory and Division of Syllables

The division of words into syllables

Read the syllables with tones aloud