noun
- the quality or property of being syllabic; the capacity of a sound to form the nucleus of a syllable
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The syllabicity of certain consonants varies between languages.
- In English, the letter ‘l’ can have syllabicity in words like ‘bottle’.
- Linguists study the syllabicity of different sounds in speech patterns.
- The syllabicity of vowels is generally more predictable than that of consonants.
- Understanding syllabicity helps explain how syllables are formed in different languages.