Syllable
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syllable-164-14396438
title:
Syllable
text:
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ignite is made of two syllables: ig and nite. Syllabic writing began several hundred
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable
date created:
2002-03-18T19:47:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T02:41:37Z
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