monosyllabic word
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monosyllabic
adjective
uk/ˌmɒn.ə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/us/ˌmɑː.noʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
disapproving
saying very little in a way that is rude ...
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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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Compared to this difference, differences between common variance percentages formonosyllabicwordreading and color - picture name reading are small.
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In this aspect, glides have the same phonological status as vowels in the process ofmonosyllabicwordmerger.
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Additionally, but at age 12 only, the color - picture naming factor scores correlated significantly with themonosyllabicwordreading measure.
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We expect this will affect themonosyllabicwordmerger, especially when no front-back contrast is available.
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Second, all speech stimuli consist of a singlemonosyllabicwordper guise, limiting prosodic and semantic influences from playing a role in speaker judgment.
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The polysyllabic word forgot allows 'th' despite its final syllable stress arguably because the high frequencymonosyllabicwordgot exhibits it.
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The children were required to blend two phonemes into amonosyllabicword.
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First, suppose that position 7 contains amonosyllabicword.
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The third column shows the simplified tree, where 1 is amonosyllabicwordand 2 a disyllabic word, compound or phrase.
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Sometimes the merged syllable sounds like amonosyllabicword, sometimes like two syllables, depending on the number of merged syllables and their syllabic structures.
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A 12-clash cannot arise since amonosyllabicwordcounts as stressed only if preceded and followed by stressless syllables.
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This does not apply in our data ofmonosyllabicwordmerger.
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Durational results also show that amonosyllabicwordmerger is usually longer than a single syllable.
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As amonosyllabicword, ea 'river' would not make for good metre in verse 51a.
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On the whole, the mean duration of themonosyllabicwordmerger is longer than the average duration of a single syllable in the corpus (186.37 milliseconds).
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With the latter remark we mean that we have no explanation for the substantial reading - naming link difference betweenmonosyllabicwordreading and color - picture name reading at age 12.
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In this case, themonosyllabicwordmerger is a good candidate for a coalescent compound and is possibly associated with the development of the lexicon of a language.
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The output of themonosyllabicwordmerger has inherited a vocalic or consonantal element from both source syllables to ensure that it represents both monosyllabic words.
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