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“the symbol”
“the cymbal”
“the thimble”
“that thing you do”
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*a syllable is a ‘unit of organization’ for a ‘sequence’ of ‘speech sounds’)
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(for example, the word water is composed of 2 syllables: wa and ter)
(a ‘syllable’ 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 meter’ / its ‘stress patterns’)
(‘syllabic writing’ began several hundred years before the ‘first letters’)
(the earliest recorded syllables are on ‘tablets’ written around ‘2800 BCE’ 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))
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*similar terms include…*
*di-syllable*
(disyllabic / bisyllable / bisyllabic)
(‘word’ with ‘2 syllables’)
“well DUH!”
(well=played!)
(who won?)
(touche!)
“BI SICUL! BI SICUL!”
(‘bicycle’)
(‘buy me’!)
(‘pretty pweeze?’)
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*tri-syllable*
(tri-syllabic)
(‘word’ with ‘3 syllables)
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*poly-syllable*
(polysyllabic)
(EITHER…)
(‘word’ of more than ‘3 syllables‘…)
(OR…)
(or any word of more than 1 ‘syllable’)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥