Syllable | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Syllable


00:01:15 1 Etymology
00:02:00 2 Transcription
00:03:06 3 Components
00:03:14 3.1 Typical model
00:05:06 3.2 Chinese model
00:07:11 3.3 Grouping of components
00:08:10 3.3.1 Body
00:08:32 3.3.2 Rime
00:10:05 3.3.3 Weight
00:11:54 4 Syllabification
00:13:04 4.1 Ambisyllabicity
00:14:25 4.2 Onset
00:14:49 4.2.1 Onset cluster
00:15:23 4.2.2 Null onset
00:19:10 4.3 Nucleus
00:19:56 4.3.1 Consonant nucleus
00:23:19 4.4 Coda
00:24:46 4.4.1 Open and closed
00:25:00 4.4.2 Null coda
00:26:29 5 Suprasegmental features
00:26:41 5.1 Tone
00:26:53 5.2 Accent
00:27:05 6 History
00:27:17 7 See also
00:27:29 8 References
00:27:42 9 Sources and recommended reading
00:27:55 10 External links
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A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ignite is composed of two syllables: ig and nite.
Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing".A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called a monosyllable (and is said to be monosyllabic). Similar terms include disyllable (and disyllabic; also bisyllable and bisyllabic) for a word of two syllables; trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable (and polysyllabic), which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.