Syllable vs Ambisyllabicity - What's the difference?
syllable | ambisyllabicity |
(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
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The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To utter in syllables.
(poetry) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable.
As nouns the difference between syllable and ambisyllabicity
is that syllable is a unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables while ambisyllabicity is the property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable.As a verb syllable
is to utter in syllables.syllable
English
Noun
(en noun)- Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
- Who dare speak / One syllable against him?
Derived terms
* monosyllable * polysyllable * quadrisyllable * quinquesyllable * syllabary * syllabatim * syllabic * syllabification * syllabify * trisyllable * words of one syllableVerb
(syllabl)- Aery tongues that syllable men's names — Milton.