Syllable

This article discusses the unit of speech. For the computer operating system, see Syllable (operating system).

Syllables and stress

Syllable structure often interacts with stress. In Latin, for example, stress is regularly determined by syllable weight, a syllable counting as heavy if has at least one of the following:

Related Topics:
Latin - Syllable weight

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• a long vowel in its nucleus
• a diphthong in its nucleus
• one or more coda(e)

In each case the syllable is considered to have two moras.

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