Example sentences for: syllabic

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

  • 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 \?\.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • In his description of writing systems Coulmas adopts the designations applied by W. Haas, namely, pleremic to describe the lexemic/morphemic level and cenemic to describe the syllabic/ phonetic/phonemic level.


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