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non-syˈllabic, a. and n. Linguistics.
[non- 3, 2.]
A. adj.
a. = asyllabic a.; spec. denoting a speech-sound that does not constitute the predominant sonority of the syllable in which it occurs.
b. Not syllable-timed.
B. n. A non-syllabic speech-sound.
1909Webster, Nonsyllabic, a. 1933L. Bloomfield Language vii. 120 Some of the phonemes are more sonorous than the phonemes (or the silence) which immediately precede or follow... Any such phoneme is a crest of sonority or a syllabic; the other phonemes are non-syllabic. Thus the [e] in red and the [r] in bird are syllabics, but the [r] in red and the [d] in red and bird are non-syllabics. 1947K. L. Pike Phonemics 30/1 The acoustic quality is quite similar to that which is found when they are acting as nonsyllabics. 1957H. Whitehall in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 143 The first distinction would be drawn between syllabic and non-syllabic rhythms. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts xvii. 382 Such monosyllabic complexes employing nonsyllabic suffixes as truth and fourth. 1965Language XLI. 32 Since the first element of these clusters always represents the syllable peak.., I have not separately indicated the nonsyllabic nature of the second element. Ibid. 476 According to their function in the syllable, the consonants are non-syllabics or syllabics. |