syllabic

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syl·lab·ic /səˈlæbɪk/ adjective 1 SLbased on or relating to syllables 音节的；分音节的；由音节组成的 syllabic stress 音节重音2. technical a syllabic consonant forms a whole syllable, for example the /l/ in ‘battle’ 成音节的

Examples from the Corpus

syllabic• Some phonologists maintain that a syllabic consonant is really a case of a vowel and a consonant that have become combined.• Since in every language there are far more syllables than phonemes, syllabic representation must inevitably require more symbols than phonemic representation.• Moreover, the more phonologically complex a language, the more symbols will be needed for syllabic representation.• They provide a fixed inventory of syllabic signs from which to draw for phonetic representation of spoken words.• syllabic sounds• Syllabic writing requires mastery of what may be several hundred or several thousand symbols that are needed for syllabic representation.• a syllabic writing system