syllable

[ˈsɪləbl]

Definition:
1. A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme.

Use 'syllable' in a sentence:

• 1. A study on acoustic models of Chinese speech recognition system with whole Chinese syllables.
• 2. The stress on the last syllable is light.
• 3. He chose his words and rhymes so that readers would know which syllable to put the emphasis on.
• 4. The iamb is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
• 5. Automatic rule acquisition based on Transformation for a Chinese syllable to character conversion system.
• 6. Research on an automatic pitch mark tool for syllable database.
• 7. You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.
• 8. On Development and Application of the Chinese Syllable Keyboard.
• 9. Research on the recognition of the novel Chinese syllable model based on whole vectors.
• 10. In 'today' the accent is on the second syllable.
• 11. You can use my first syllable.
• 12. If they use multi-syllable words, you should, too.
• 13. The BP Artificial Neural Network and Chinese Syllable Detection.
• 14. In 'strategic' the stress falls on the second syllable.
• 15. Yes, if the kids had easy-to-remember, single-syllable names.
• 16. It becomes another syllable.
• 17. A Number of Theoretical Issues in Chinese Language Syllables.
• 18. Study on Syllable Based Indexing Methods in Mandarin Speech Retrieval.
• 19. This paper introduces the significance of evaluation of Chinese sentential syllable input method system.
• 20. And York used to have three syllables, not one.
• 21. We children called her Oma, accenting both syllables.
• 22. "You don't know," she said, each syllable seeped in sarcasm.
• 23. Please accent the first syllable.
• 24. You might also want to experiment with character and syllable limits.
• 25. In the word family the accent falls on the first syllable.
• 26. a word with two syllables.
• 27. You always put too much emphasis on the last syllable.
• 28. Endpoint Detection and Syllable Division for Chinese Speech in High Noise Condition.
• 29. Implementation and Application of Arithmetic of Mongolian Syllable Analysis.
• 30. You can call me Ja, the first syllable.
• 31. The stress falls on the second syllable.
• 32. The word "student" has its accent on the first syllable.
• 33. In the word "wonderful", the accent is on the first syllable.
• 34. The accent falls on the third syllable.
• 35. Some languages have "fixed stress", meaning that the stress on virtually any multisyllable word falls on a particular syllable.
• 36. The complexity of the Chinese syllable structure is syllabic status of the prenuclear glides.
• 37. A more economical approach was to use a sign to express not a whole word but a single syllable.
• 38. You need to put the emphasis on the second syllable.
• 39. How the long, ascending syllable of wild?
• 40. Kimchi is now being dubbed keum-chi, the first syllable being Korean for gold.
• 41. When I asked about this unusual word, she said that she used the first syllable from each nationality.
• 42. The stress may fall on the first or the second syllable.
• 43. He articulated each syllable carefully.
• 44. An Analysis of English Syllable Templates in Light of Syntactic Structures.
• 45. 'Potato' is stressed on the second syllable.
• 46. In speaking English do not swallow a single syllable, however short it may be.
• 47. In speaking English, do not swallow a single syllable, however short it may be.
• 48. In some regions, sometimes two or more vowels together prompt the creation of an extra syllable.
• 49. The emphasis is on the first syllable of the last word.
• 50. He articulated each syllable.
• 51. Could you say that again in words of one syllable?
• 52. You stress the first syllable in 'happiness'.
• 53. Which syllable does the stress fall on?