Specialist dictionary

Phonology

Specialist vocabulary classified under Linguistics.

Core vocabulary

36 featured terms

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Accentnoun

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

Emphasisnoun

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

Stressnoun

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

allophonenoun

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

Phonemenoun

(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

Syllablenoun

a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word ‘pocket’ has two syllables"

Tonenoun

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

Accentuationnoun

the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance

Pitch accentnoun

emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness

Sentence stressnoun

the distribution of stresses within a sentence

Tonic accentnoun

emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness

Word accentnoun

the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

Word stressnoun

the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

Antepenultnoun

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

Antepenultimanoun

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

Antepenultimatenoun

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

Closed syllablenoun

a syllable that ends with a consonant.; "The vowel in a closed syllable is short."

Heavy syllablenoun

a syllable with a branching nucleus or a branching rime.; "A heavy syllable consists of a long vowel or a diphthong, or a short vowel followed b…

Light syllablenoun

a syllable with a short vowel as the nucleus and no coda.; "A light syllable consists of a single short vowel in an open syllable."

Open syllablenoun

a syllable ended by a vowel or diphthong.; "An open syllable occurs when a vowel is at the end of the syllable, resulting in the long vowel soun…

Penultnoun

the next to last syllable in a word

Penultimanoun

the next to last syllable in a word

Penultimatenoun

the next to last syllable in a word

Reduplicationnoun

the syllable added in a reduplicated word form

Solfa syllablenoun

one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization

Ultimanoun

the last syllable in a word

Fanoun

the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

Lanoun

the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization

Minoun

the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

Raynoun

the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

Renoun

the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

Sinoun

the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

Sonoun

the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization

Solnoun

the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization

tinoun

the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

Utnoun

the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization