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Syllables

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Small group of phonemes that normally contains one vowel.

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Syllabification

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The process of grouping phonemes into syllables.

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Onset

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The beginning of a syllable, everything before the vowel.

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Rhyme

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The part of the syllable that is not onset, this is the vowel and everything that follows.

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Nucleus

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Obligatory part of a syllable that contains a vowel.

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Coda

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The last part of the syllable, consisting of consonants.

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Syllabic writing

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Writing systems where each syllable has its own symbol.

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Stressed syllable

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Syllable marked by a higher tone, increased volume or greater length than comparable unstressed syllables.

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Sentence stress

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The part of the sentence that carries stress.

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Foot

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The rhyming unit constituted by a stressed syllable.

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Trochee

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A foot with two syllables, the first of which is stressed and the second unstressed.

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Iamb

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A foot in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.

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Phonotactics

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The sub-discipline of linguistics that concerns itself with the ways in which syllables can be built up from strings of phonemes.