Example sentences for: syllabic

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

  • What I found was that the syllabics occurred only when the preceding sound was a dental or alveolar (d or t); when it was a velar (k or g), there was enough time for a speaker to release a sound which was more like a full schwa than a syllabic.

  • 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.

  • Indeed, though it is a matter of degree, I find it difficult to pronounce a word like organism with a syllabic Z\?

  • One useful function of dictionaries till recently was that they showed syllabic breaks, enabling letter- and novel-writers alike to discover where to hyphenate words.

  • As the speakers of various languages applied it to their needs, it became somewhat more sophisticated; the Elamites, for example, were able to economize on the number of symbols by assigning to most of them syllabic identity, a major step toward the development of alphabetic writing.


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