Syllables Sentence Examples

Six of the letter-names are not words in any known tongue, and appear to be syllables only.

True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech.

In this case the signs representing Sumerian words were treated merely as syllables, and, without reference to their meaning, utilized for spelling Babylonian words.

At some remote date a Japanese maker of songs seems to have discovered that a peculiar and very fascinating rhythm is produced by lines containing 5 syllables and 7 syllables alternately.

The most attenuated form of all is the hokku (or haikai) which consists of only three lines, namely, 17 syllables.

For the composition of the uta gradually deteriorated from the end ofthe 9th century, when a game called uta-awase became a fashionable pastime, and aristocratic men and women tried to string together versicles of 31 syllables, careful of the form and careless of the thought.

Its principal variety is the haikai, which is nothing more than a tanka shorn of its concluding fourteen syllables, and therefore virtually identical with the hokku, already described.

During the 140 days of his imprisonment there he wrote the marvellous Iambes (in alternate lines of 12 and 8 syllables), which hiss and stab like poisoned bullets, and which were transmitted to his family by a venal gaoler.

Even as a grammarian he performed an important service to the literary language of Rome, by fixing its prosody and arresting the tendency to decay in its final syllables.

In large halls the words of a speaker are echoed or reflected from flat walls or roof or floor; and these reflected sounds follow the direct sounds at such an interval that syllables and words overlap, to the confusion of the speech and the annoyance of the audience.

Of such monosyllables there are less than two thousand, and therefore many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, confusion being avoided by the tone in which they are spoken, whence the term" tonal,"which is applied to all the languages of this family.

Though many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, the majority have only one or at most two meanings, but there are some which are used with quite a number of different inflections, each of which gives the word a new meaning.

The Kap is rhythmical and also has rhyming syllables.

The lines contain an equal number of syllables, and are arranged in stanzas of four lines each.

These follow a prescribed form, and consist of eight lines divided into two stanzas of four lines each, every line containing eight syllables.

Ireland, the latter word being originally pronounced in three syllables.

They have the chief characteristics of the Polynesian, with Malay affinities, and peculiarities such as the use of suffixes and inseparable pronouns and, as in Tagal, of the infix to denote changes in the verb; in the west groups there is a tendency to closed syllables and double consonants, and a use of the palatals ch, j, sh, the dental th, and s (the last perhaps only in foreign words), which is alien to the Polynesian.

The loss extends to the stem-ending of the first element of a compound, thus the personal name Maglo-ci nos became Maelgwn; and generally to unaccented syllables, thus episcopus became *epscop, whence esgob; trinitat-em gives trindod.

Aryan declension naturally disappeared with the loss of final syllables.

But short vowels have been affected by vowels in succeeding syllables.

Some of her followers left her before 1800, and then the community gradually broke up. The name of the village is said to have been derived from the first syllables of "Pennsylvania" and "Yankee," as most of the early settlers were Pennsylvanians and New Englanders.

He was the author of a treatise (incomplete) in four books (written chiefly in hexameters), on letters, syllables, feet and metres, of which considerable use was made by later writers on similar subjects.

The syllables overlap, and the hearing is confused.

It takes no account of the quantity of syllables; the scansion depends on accent, and there is always an accent on the last syllable but one.

It is specially used of an iambic verse with fifteen syllables, i.e.

Many of the syllables are closed.

The name Barotac is from the Spanish word baro, which means mud, as well as the last syllables of tac and lutac. With nuevo, translated as new, added to the name, it distinguished it from another town called Barotac Viejo just a few town to the north.

Though short o changed in the Latin of the last age of the Roman republic to u in unaccented syllables always (except after u whether vowel or consonant), and sometimes also in accented syllables, this was not equally true of vulgar Latin, as is shown by the Romance languages.

The long vowel becomes more rounded as it is being pronounced, so that it ends in a u-sound, though this is not so noticeable in weak syllables like the final syllable of follow.

The dialog, which Potter wrote, is in a rhyme which is an iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables.

The vowel [I] is becoming less frequent in weak syllables.

It only really makes sense in Japanese -- English syllables are a very different ilk from their Japanese cousins.

All the dialog, which Potter wrote, is in rhyming iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables.

But I can't remember whether Byrd gives 2 quavers and splits the word into its syllables on paper.

In so-called High German, many once strongly emphasized syllables have been weakened, flattened, making them almost soundless.

In Tantrism, the sacred syllables are identified with these root powers.

For instance, the dropping of final syllables seems to be quite common.

Of course, few would believe that Jesus actually uttered the syllables " I am the Resurrection and the life " .

Now count the syllables in each of the English translations.

It also allowed him to integrate nonsense syllables which had a purely rhythmic value into his singing.

The odd time signatures are there to really prevent any emphasis of syllables, so that the words are presented as they are.

The Babylonian syllabary which thus arose, and which, as the culture passed on to the north - known as Assyria - became the Babylonian Assyrian syllabary, 3 was enlarged and modified in the course of time, the Semitic equivalents for many of the signs being distorted or abbreviated to form the basis of new "phonetic" values that were thus of " Semitic " origin; but, on the whole, the " non-Semitic " character of the signs used as syllables in the phonetic method of writing Semitic words was preserved; and, furthermore, down to the latest days of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires the mixed method of writing continued, though there were periods when " purism " was the fashion, and there was a more marked tendency to spell out the words laboriously in preference to using signs with a phonetic complement as an aid in suggesting the reading desired in any given instance.

Metrical form is distinguished from prose by the uniformity of corresponding lines in relation to the number of syllables and the similarity of final sound (rhyme or assonance), by the repetition of certain letters at regular intervals (in alliterative measure), or merely by the regular succession of ups and downs of intonation.

But I ca n't remember whether Byrd gives 2 quavers and splits the word into its syllables on paper.

Of course, few would believe that Jesus actually uttered the syllables " I am the Resurrection and the life ".

Simple vowels in unstressed syllables are short, whatever the following consonant.

As you speak to your baby, you may find that you naturally emphasize syllables and change your voice tones.

The changing of your voice and the emphasizing of certain syllables will hold onto your child's attention, and she'll become more fascinated with copying your sounds.

Pick a few syllables from your favorite words and try putting them together.

The first line of a haiku has five syllables, the next seven and the last line has five.

For stuttering and other fluency disorders, a popular treatment method is fluency training, which develops coordination between speech and breathing, slows down the rate of speech, and develops the ability to prolong syllables.

Apraxia affects the ability to sequence and vocalize sounds, syllables, and words.

Specific word exercises follow, beginning with single sounds, then syllables, and moving on to words, phrases, and sentences.

Speech begins as repetitive syllables, followed by words, phrases, and sentences.

They are unable to recognize and decode the sounds and syllables (phonetic structure) behind written words and language in general.

Children with a reading disorder may confuse or transpose words or letters and omit or add syllables to words.

Phonics-A system to teach reading by teaching the speech sounds associated with single letters, letter combinations, and syllables.

Stuttering is a speech problem characterized by repetitions; pauses; or drawn-out syllables, words, and phrases.

Children might repeat syllables or words once or twice.

In these children, complete blocks of speech are more common than repetitions or prolongations, during which children lengthen syllables or words.

On good days, a stutterer might be able to talk fluently using words that usually cause him to repeat, pause or prolong sounds, syllables, parts of words, entire words, or phrases.

Speak the individual syllables if there is more than one.

It specifies the number of lines the poem is to have as well as other information like rhyme scheme, syllables and any other requirements for the type of poem you're trying to create.

Other types of poems are identified by the number of lines they contain, the number of syllables each line contains, the rhyme scheme and other factors, but free verse shrugs all of these rules off.

The grammatical forms are expressed, as in Turkish, by means of affixes modulated according to the high or low vowel power of the root or chief syllables of the word to which they are appended-the former being represented by e, o, S, ii, i l l, the latter by a, d, o, 6, u, it; the sounds e, i, i are regarded as neutral.

According to the developed cuneiform system of writing, words may be written by means of a sign (or combination of signs) expressive of the entire word, or they may be spelled out phonetically in syllables.

How they conveyed their meaning, how far they pictorially represented ideas or spelt words in the different languages of the country, is a question not yet answered in a complete way; Landa's description (p. 320) gives a table of a number of their elements as phonetically representing letters or syllables, but, though there may be a partial truth in his rules, they are insufficient or too erroneous to serve for any general decipherment.

There is evidence that the amount of stress on syllables, and the consequent length of vowels, varied greatly in spoken Coptic, and that the variation gave much trouble to the scribes; the early Christian writers must have taken as a model for each dialect the deliberate speech of grave elders or preachers, and so secured a uniform system of accentuation.

Livy's practice is exactly opposite to that of Cicero, since he has a marked preference for the S forms, "thereby exemplifying Cicero's saying that long syllables are more appropriate to history than to oratory.'

A special feature of the Sakti cult is the use of obscure Vedic mantras, often changed so as to be quite meaningless and on that very account deemed the more efficacious for the acquisition of superhuman powers; as well as of mystic letters and syllables called bija (germ), of magic circles (chakra) and diagrams (yantra), and of amulets of various materials inscribed with formulae of fancied mysterious import.

Traditionally, English poetry consists of metrical verse, which means that the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is regular.

Consequently we find an extraordinary development of strophic forms corresponding to the many new "tones" which every Meistersinger regarded it as his duty to invent - tones which bore the most remarkable and often ridiculous names, such as Gestreif tsaf ranblumleinweis, Fettdachsweis, Vielfrassweis, geblilmte Paradiesweis, &c. The verses were adapted to the musical strophes by a merely mechanical counting of syllables, regardless of rhythm or sense.

Latham suggested that it was taken from the syllables quedil, of the Lat.

Instead, free verse poetry may rhyme or may not rhyme (or may mix rhyming and not rhyming lines), it may be very long or very short, and it doesn't count syllables.

This form of Japanese poetry requires just 17 syllables on three lines.

The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables.

Again, a good rule of thumb is to keep it simple at two syllables if possible.

Try to make sure the words have the same number of syllables.

The melodies of the song are identical except for one thing - the first note is spliced since "happy" has two syllables while "good" only has one.

Of course if you have two words that start with similar syllables, you are going to take the first syllable of each word and put them together.

Use easy-to-spell words that are one or two syllables.

In final syllables the diphthongs ai, ei, oi, all appear as e.

Dealing next with accent, punctuation marks, sounds and syllables, it goes on to the different parts of speech (eight in number) and their inflections.

The Klong is rhythmic, the play being on the inflection of the voice in speaking the words, which inflection is arranged according to fixed schemes; the rhyme, if it can so be called, being sought not in the similarity of syllables but of intonation.

The syllabary upon the Galassi vase indicates in all probability that the vase, which resembles an ink-bottle, belonged to a child, for whose edification the syllables pa, pi, pe, pu and the rest were intended.

Catalan being a variety of the langue doc, it will be convenient to note the peculiarities of its phonetics and inflexion as compared with ordinary Provenal, Tonic VowelsWith regard to a, which is pronounced alike in open and close syllables (amar, a m a r e; abre, a r b o r), there is nothing to remark.

Artists have been known to use the left hand in the hope of checking the fatal facility which practice had conferred on the right; and if Hood had been able to place under some restraint the curious and complex machinery of words and syllables which his fancy was incessantly producing, his style would have been a great gainer, and much real earnestness of object, which now lies confused by the brilliant kaleidoscope of language, would have remained definite and clear.

As the medieval lyric decayed, more and more attention was given to the externals of poetic composition, the form, the number of syllables, the melody; and it was such externals that attracted the interest of these burgher-poets.

Analysis showed that all the required sounds could be conveyed with 47 syllables, and having selected the ideographs that corresponded .to those sounds, they reduced them, first, to forms called hiragana, and, secondly, to still more simplified forms called katakana.