Example sentences for: syllabic

How can you use “syllabic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (In this town, one sure mark of a commercial-turned-residential neighborhood is a syllabic acronym.

  • When I worked on the setting up of the pronunciation system for the Random House dictionaries, I examined sound spectrograms of words that middle, total, sudden, servant, father, standard , etc., that some phoneticians transcribed using syllabic \?\, \?\, and \?\.

  • Many thousands of items in contemporary urban Japanese usage are adapted English words, nativized by reshaping their syllabic patterns into forms that can be written in katakana symbols and pronounced without difficulty.

  • Zhuang, a Tai language spoken in Southern China, defies typographers by employing letters resembling the numbers 2 through 6 to indicate syllabic tone: \symbol\.

  • Coulmas's clear exposition of the history of writing systems traces the development of various kinds of writing systems--ideographic, pictographic, morphemic, syllabic, phonemic, and phonetic--through history, discussing them individually, describing how certain ancient scripts were deciphered, and presenting his cogent arguments for regarding at least some aspects of language through the analysis of writing.


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