disyllable
noun[C]
languagespecializeduk/daɪˈsɪl.ə.bəl/us/daɪˈsɪl.ə.bəl/a word with twosyllables:
双音节词The word "blessed" can bepronouncedas amonosyllableor a disyllable.“blessed”这个词可以读成单音节词或双音节词。
- Therapidpitchchangeinmonosyllablesisespeciallydramaticwhen amonosyllabicword with ashortvowellike "bit" iscomparedto a disyllable with alongstressedvowellike "rival".
- Thedecisiontoincludedisyllables as well asmonosyllablesismotivatedprimarilybecause disyllables arestronglyrepresentedin thedatabase.
- A moredetailedanalysisof the wordsproducedby theFinnishchildrenrevealedthat as much as 96percentof thedisyllabicwords wereproducedas disyllables,whereas58percentof the words with threesyllableswerereducedtodisyllabicproductions.
- Thecallsof thebirdsarehigh-pitchedandrathermusical, "kee-kwa", "kik-wit", "ti-che" andsimilardisyllables.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable