- with two characters) and
cases where a
single character represents a
polysyllabic word or phrase.
Modern Chinese has many homophones; thus the same spoken...
- (and trisyllabic) for a word of
three syllables; and
polysyllable (and
polysyllabic),
which may
refer either to a word of more than
three syllables or to...
- In
rapping and poetry,
multisyllabic rhymes (also
known as
compound rhymes,
polysyllable rhymes, and
sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis) are rhymes...
- The
Polysyllabic Spree is a 2004
collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading"
columns in The Believer. The book
collates his
columns from September...
- survived, such as 'imbibe' and 'extrapolate'. Many of the most
common polysyllabic English words are of
Latin origin through the
medium of Old French. Romance...
-
context as tonos, i.e.
simply "accent"),
marking the
stressed syllable of
polysyllabic words, and
occasionally the
diaeresis to
distinguish diphthongal from...
- are
monosyllabic as in Chinese,
whereas native Korean morphemes can be
polysyllabic. The Sino-Korean
words were
deliberately imported alongside corresponding...
- However, this
method is not foolproof: the
speaker could easily break up
polysyllabic words, or fail to
separate two or more
closely linked words (e.g. "to...
- /mm/ elsewhere).
Italian phonotactics do not
usually permit verbs and
polysyllabic nouns to end with consonants,
except in
poetry and song, so
foreign words...
-
Welsh language.
Stress usually falls on the
penultimate syllable in
polysyllabic words, and the word-final
unstressed syllable receives a
higher pitch...