Reduced syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable
Primarily in Austroasiatic languages (also known as Mon–Khmer), in a typical word a minor syllable is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may be of the form /Cə/ or /CəN/, with a reduced vowel, as in colloquial Khmer, or of the form /CC/ with no vowel at all, as in Mlabri /kn̩diːŋ/ 'navel' (minor syllable /kn̩/) and /br̩poːŋ/ 'underneath' (minor syllable /br̩/), and Khasi kyndon/kn̩dɔːn/ 'rule' (minor syllable /kn̩/), syrwet/sr̩wɛt̚/ 'sign' (minor syllable /sr̩/), kylla/kl̩la/ 'transform' (minor syllable /kl̩/), symboh/sm̩bɔːʔ/ 'seed' (minor syllable /sm̩/) and tyngkai/tŋ̩kaːɪ/ 'conserve' (minor syllable /tŋ̩/).
This iambic pattern is sometimes called sesquisyllabic (lit. 'one and a half syllables'), a term coined by the American linguist James Matisoff in 1973 (Matisoff 1973:86). Although the term may be applied to any word with an iambic structure, it is more narrowly defined as a syllable with a consonant cluster whose phonetic realization is [CǝC].[1]
in a typical word a minorsyllable is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minorsyllable may be of the form /Cə/...
transcription delimiters. A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel)...
initial minorsyllable (in addition to, and independent of, initial clusters in the main syllable). When a minorsyllable occurred, the main syllable's initial...
stressed on the final syllable, hence many words conform to the typical Mon–Khmer pattern of a stressed syllable preceded by a minorsyllable. The language has...
involving phonemic tone or register, a contrast between major and minorsyllables, and strict limitations on consonant clusters. Burmese has 34 consonant...
half"), consisting of a stressed syllable with approximately the above structure, preceded by an unstressed "minor" syllable consisting only of a consonant...
syllable coda). /ə/ only occurs in a minorsyllable, and is the only vowel that is permitted in a minorsyllable (see below). The close vowels /i/ and...
There are not many single syllable words in use. A word is usually composed of the following parts: Major syllableMinorsyllable Presyllable Kensiu uses...
unstressed prefix *Cə- (a minorsyllable), which conditioned syllabic tenseness contrasting with laxness in type B syllables. a length distinction of the...
CCV(C). Sesquisyllabic: consist of a major syllable with fully stressed vowel, preceded by a minorsyllable Temiar ləpud 'caudal fin' Semai kʔɛːp [kɛʔɛːp]...
verbs consisting of an initial, unstressed, reduced minorsyllable followed by a stressed, full syllable. This reduction of presyllables has led to a variety...
copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minorsyllable. Examples of words in Semai include the following: Asli (2017), a film...
impeded if the lateral was preceded by an unspecified consonant or minorsyllable. He reconstructs 林 as *Cə-lim, yielding MC lim. Furthermore, MC /l/...
different lengths of each syllable. In English poetry, they are based on the different levels of stress placed on each syllable. In both cases, the meter...
necessarily restricted to them, as the pattern also follows Khmer's minorsyllable pattern. The modern Khmer numbers from 30 to 90 are as follows: The...
combinations, like single syllables, were written with single characters and also counted as a single foot in verse. Rarely, the minorsyllables received a separate...
boundary markers: ⟨.⟩ for a syllable break, ⟨|⟩ for a minor prosodic break and ⟨‖⟩ for a major prosodic break. The tags 'minor' and 'major' are intentionally...
ㅇ is silent syllable-initially and is used as a placeholder when the syllable starts with a vowel. ㄸ, ㅃ, and ㅉ are never used syllable-finally. Consonants...
romanized: Oṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism....
Linguistics. Herr, Kristen. 2011. The Phonological Interpretation of MinorSyllables, Applied to Lemi Chin. Master’s thesis. Lung, K Nu San. 2017. Vitality...
วรรณยุต, wannayuk or wannayut) to create characters mostly representing syllables. Although commonly referred to as the "Thai alphabet", the script is in...
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