- syllabicity
- syl·la·bic·i·ty
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syllabicity
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syllabicity — noun The property or status of (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei. The syllabicity of Proto Indo European syllabic sonorants ,y and ,w can easily be determined by a rule … Wiktionary
syllabicity — noun Date: 1933 the state of being or the power of forming a syllable … New Collegiate Dictionary
syllabicity — /sil euh bis i tee/, n. the state of being syllabic; the ability to form a syllable. [1930 35; SYLLABIC + ITY] * * * … Universalium
syllabicity — noun the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: ↑syllabic • Hypernyms: ↑language system … Useful english dictionary
Sievers' Law — in Indo European linguistics accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable. Specifically it refers to the alternation between * iy and * y , and… … Wikipedia
International Phonetic Alphabet — Not to be confused with NATO phonetic alphabet. IPA redirects here. For other uses, see IPA (disambiguation). For usage of IPA in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:IPA or Wikipedia:IPA/Introduction International Phonetic Alphabet … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic — словѣньскъ ѩзꙑкъ slověnĭskŭ językŭ Spoken in formerly in Slavic areas, under the influence of Byzantium (both Catholic and Orthodox) Region Eastern Europe Era … Wikipedia
X-SAMPA — The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. It was designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and … Wikipedia
Ring (diacritic) — A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts.Ring aboveThe Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Walloon character Å (å) is typically seen as an A with a… … Wikipedia
Naming conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet — The International Phonetic Alphabet requires specific names for the symbols and diacritics used in the alphabet. It is often desirable to distinguish an IPA symbol from the sound it is intended to represent, since there is not a one to one… … Wikipedia
