What is a syllable?

Question

I've read the word 'syllable' many times, but I'm not sure what it means. Can anyone help me with it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&de...

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryO...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable

Answer 2

A syllable is like a way you pronounce a word.

Like the word amazing has three syllables.

a-maz-ing

Answer 3

These are syl-la-bles.

Answer 4

What sorts of things are in a syllable? Let's take a simple example to start with: cat.

Let's take that one step further and use IPA to represent the word cat: .

It's not very hard to determine that  has one syllable. In some varieties of English, the word cat is pronounced with two syllables, but that would have a different IPA representation. The pronunciation , however, has one syllable.

So, what's in it? Well, there's a , a , and a . If we simplify that a little, there is are two consonants with a vowel in the middle, or we have a CVC sequence, where C is a consonant, and V is a vowel.

Based on this, we know that a syllable can be composed of a consonant followed by a vowel, followed by a consonant.

What other structures can a single syllable have ? Think of different single syllable words

Answer 5

WEN U SPLIT WORDS IN TO PARTS LIKE FOR EXAMPLE THE WORD LOVE..LOL...    LO-VE

AN-GRY

BA-NA-NA

DAN-GER-OUS

Answer 6

syll  a  ble.  3

an  y one.  3

Answer 7

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