syllable structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsyllableandstructure
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syllable
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/us/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/
a single unit of speech, either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word can be separated, usually containing ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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It may be thatsyllablestructuremay not play a role in the organization of lexical representations, but may influence the organization of phonological representations.
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Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected bysyllablestructure.
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Finally, we do not specify thesyllablestructureprecisely.
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Among the 30 target /nonword sequences, 20 sequences had asyllablestructurethat was compatible, and 10 sequences had a structure that was not.
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In this manner, visual similarity with real words was lost, but we could test graphemeto-phoneme correspondence if thesyllablestructurewas kept constant.
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Unlike many areas of linguistic theory, in the domain ofsyllablestructure, the data are relatively uncontroversial.
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It was natural, therefore, that syntactic structure should possess features reminiscent ofsyllablestructure.
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Metathesis, the repositioning of segments within a word, has been neglected in analyses of interlanguagesyllablestructure.
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Rules are not allowed the same device, and neithersyllablestructureavailable before or after application of rewrite rules will cause the desired ambiguity.
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This is illustrated in detail for various aspects ofsyllablestructure: onset, rhymes, and stress.
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A word-list was constructed for each language containing minimally contrastive forms illustrating thesyllablestructuredifferences of interest.
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Only the head foot is built on lower-level projections fromsyllablestructurein which the distinction between light and heavy syllables is maintained.
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Nothing depends on these details ofsyllablestructure, however.
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Furthermore, it has a simplesyllablestructureand clear syllable boundaries.
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The latter are usually single syllables that have the samesyllablestructureas is found in lexical items.
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A listener-oriented explanation for durational cues to juncture suggests that the articulatory timing routines giving rise to such cues may be independent ofsyllablestructure.
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Specifically, the early acquisition of allophonic variation withsyllablestructuremay indicate that stop aspiration duration is specified within the word.
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In contrast to the allophonic juncture cue, the durational cue does not appear to be acquired withsyllablestructure.
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For multi-word utterances, thesyllablestructureis embedded in a simple phrase structure.
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