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'''l''' doubled after stressed syllable: BrE and AmE '''rebélled

...tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây'''; cf. '''Bàhrain'''. *'''towårds''' was traditionally pronounced as one syllable (*tårds) but is now usually two (*təwårds)

...also possible for [[syllabary|syllabaries]], where [[symbol]]s indicate [[syllable]]s rather than individual phonemes.</ref> or groups of letters with distinc

...phonological components: for example, English ''cat'' appears as a single syllable arranging the [[phonetic segment|segment]]s [k], [æ]<ref>Pronounced 'ash'.

...first=Libby |last=Copleand |title = President's Sin of Omission? (Dropped Syllable in Speech Riles Democrats) | date = [[2007-01-25]] | url = http://www.washi

cf. ''wither'' '''sêar''', one diphthong, one syllable: *sêeər, two syllables ''see'' '''sêer

...first=Libby |last=Copleand |title = President's Sin of Omission? (Dropped Syllable in Speech Riles Democrats) | date = [[2007-01-25]] | url = http://www.washi

...e traditional English pronunciation, though the Spanish stresses the first syllable '''chîropractic''' k-, first syllable = '''Caîro

...] with '''Árran''' (but widely mispronounced with the stress on the second syllable, perhaps by analogy with '''[[Amman|Ammàn]]''')<ref name="Crossette">{{Cit '''Ássád''', first syllable stressed, making a minimal pair with '''ácid'''

...tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây

...the French pronunciation, peekay; either is usually accented on the second syllable. The French terminology used nowadays is a 19th-century reversion: earlier

...syllables is pronounced with a somewhat greater stress of voice. ... This syllable is said to be ''accented''."), emphasis ("A word is said to be ''emphasized

'''Rôosevelt''', first syllable = '''rôse

...''' ''bird'' = '''Rhêa''' ''moon'' (-êə, two syllables, cf. '''sêa''', one syllable). It is optionally schwa, however, in '''cínemà'''/'''cínema''', and it

either syllable stressed ''noun = verb'' '''fînánce words of one syllable: -'''y''' = -'''îe

First syllable: '''agô, ahéad, abòut, again''' (*əgén), '''abòve''', '''upón'' Second syllable: '''ígnorance, pébble, doùble, Chîna, sêater, víctor, bürsar,

'''lëarned''' as an attributive adjective gains a syllable: '''a''' *lëarníd '''mán

...[[katakana]]'' (カタカナ) write [[mora]]s, equivalent to but not the same as [[syllable]]s, and to a degree can indicate [[pronunciation]]. The [[Roman alphabet]],

...postvocalic’ '''r''', that is to say '''r''' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English but pronounced in American English, in words ...'''móral''' can in American English sound to British ears almost like one syllable: *mŏrrl.

...ped into a separate language from [[Vulgar Latin]], the unstressed final [[syllable]] of many words was dropped or elided into the following word.