multisyllabic word
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multisyllabic
adjective
uk/ˌmʌl.ti.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/us/ˌmʌl.ti.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
having several syllables (= parts into which a word can be separated, usually containing a vowel), or using words ...
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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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These results indicate that the more words produced in an utterance the higher probability that amultisyllabicwordwas reduced.
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Any evidence that the child extracts the correct boundaries of amultisyllabicword, but produces only a single syllable, is evidence against an extraction account of syllable omission.
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Words are often monosyllabic, and many words are differentiated solely by tone; in amultisyllabicwordeach syllable often carries its own tone.
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In most circumstances, every syllable had its own tone; hence amultisyllabicwordtypically had a tone assigned to each syllable.
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With regard to multisyllabic words, it can be assumed that these words, on average, are characterized by greater stimulus ambiguity than monosyllabic words.
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The itemisation of her stress patterns in multisyllabic words is not helpful without knowledge of the target forms that she is attempting.
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The authors also note that between the ages of 1; 8 and 1;10, the majority of fillers occurred before monosyllabic rather than multisyllabic words.
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They consisted of one to four syllables of which 78% (178 words) were multisyllabic words.
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They also found that the difficulty occurred when the article preceded multisyllabic words.
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This account addresses syllable omissions from phrases as well as from multisyllabic words.
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The word list was composed of bi- and multisyllabic words with a maximum of five syllables.
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Transposition of phonemes was seen in multisyllabic words.
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Moreover, by looking further ' behind ' focused parts of multisyllabic words, the same pattern of regularities may be spotted there as well.
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It is suggested that, unlike multisyllabic words but similar to letters and numbers, monosyllabic words act as relatively holistic stimuli, which are recognized as sight words.
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Multisyllabic words in particular seem to pose a problem for beginning language learners, since one or more syllables of the target word often goes unpronounced.
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In the past, syllables in multisyllabic words were concatenated with hyphens, but this practice had died out, and hyphenation is now reserved for foreign borrowings.
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In multisyllabic words, in can occur in all positions.
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In multisyllabic words, it can occur in all positions.
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Kensiu appears to have all three of the above types of syllables, but with the added features of tri- and tetra-syllabic words and with fixed stress in multisyllabic words.
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