polysyllabic word
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polysyllabic
adjective
uk/ˌpɒl.i.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/us/ˌpɑː.li.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
containing three or ...
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word
noun
uk/wɜːd/us/wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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Thepolysyllabicwordforgot allows 'th' despite its final syllable stress arguably because the high frequency monosyllabic word got exhibits it.
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The fact that the final syllable of apolysyllabicwordis never stressed follows from an undominated constraint.
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Second, suppose then that position 7 contains a stressed syllable of apolysyllabicword.
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In the middle of apolysyllabicword, it is.
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In apolysyllabicword, the tone of the first syllable determines the tone of the entire word.
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There is no set rule for which other syllables might receive stress in apolysyllabicword, or which monosyllabic words are stressed in a clause.
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Notice also that nopolysyllabicwordwill be stressed on the first syllable.
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If thepolysyllabicwordis five syllables or more, every odd syllable (leftward) from the antepenult syllable is also assigned secondary stress.
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Function words are fairly evenly distributed between monosyllabic (43.5%) and polysyllabic words (56.5%).
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They uncover an additional phonological factor : vowel insertion is more likely in monosyllabic than in polysyllabic words.
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There was substantially more deletion of tokens in monosyllabic words (22.2%) than in polysyllabic words (14.7%) in the overall dataset.
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This is seen mainly in a love of polysyllabic words: / bin anaialetam?
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These representations make explicit the syllables of a word and, for polysyllabic words, the stress pattern across syllables.
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This time, the conditioning environment for polysyllabic words is phonological.
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The process has spread from occurring solely in monosyllabic words with short vowels to polysyllabic words which end in a syllable with a weak vowel.
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The phenomena he discusses include allusions, polysyllabic words, and syntactic complexity in terms of parataxis and hypotaxis.
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Presenting monosyllabic words is more likely to induce subjects to use intrasyllabic units, whereas with polysyllabic words full syllable structures may dominate processing.
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In the present experiments we examine the role of syllable-sized units in polysyllabic words.
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Stress is iterative, though iterativity can hardly be tested, due to the rarity of polysyllabic words (p. 90).
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The need for lexical marking is caused by the fact that polysyllabic words with initial stress may be toneless.
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