10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISSYLLABIC»
Discover the use of
dissyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dissyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics
(3) The sound -ñ occurred at the end of one or two dissyllabic basic nouns. (4)
The sound -s occurred at the end of a few dissyllabic basic nouns and even fewer
verbs; it did not occur at the end of suffixes (the negative suffix -ma:s/-me:s in is a
...
The number of the syllables being two, the Measure in question is Dissyllabic. §
304. In lines like the following the Accent falls on every third syllable, so that the
number of syllables to the Measure is three, and the Measure is Trisyllabic.
Robert Gordon Latham, 1841
3
A Greek Reader: Selected Principally from the Work of ...
In this line, the first of the included iambi has a long anacrusis (u), the second a
dissyllabic one (AftS-).* ava | fd^ufiSv A?ov J vo£>. 5. In this line, the dissyllabic
anacrusis is contracted into one long, and the third syllable of the trochaic syzygy
...
Friedrich Jacobs, Charles Anthon, 1840
4
A practical grammar of English pronunciation: on plain and ...
A line containing two dissyllabic feet or iambuses. ' The same with a redundant
syllable. ' A line of three dissyllabic feet. * The same with a redundant syllable. " A
line of four dissyllabic feet. r The same with a redundant syllable. • A line of five ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart, 1810
This seems to have been especially frequent with [i:], so that peer changed from [
pi:r] to ['pi:ar], which was dissyllabic. In the Early Modem period, an [a]-type glide
often developed also between diphthongs and a following /r/. It is especially ...
Charles Laurence Barber, 1997
6
The Language and Metre of Chaucer
Nor does dissyllabic anacrusis occur. The chapter on prosody showed us by
what means the poet could, under certain circumstances, reduce two syllables to
one. We may remember that by syncope, syndesis and synizesis an absolute ...
7
The Physical Foundation of Language
monosyllable, whether meaningful or not, a specified gesture, the question is
what the product in terms of the total gesture equivalent to a dissyllabic word is.
The formation of dissyllables does notinitself introduceany newletter groupings;
the ...
8
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse
Donaldson's second example involves the monosyllabic noun hope, which in fact
according to the Concordance preponderates over dissyllabic hope eight (GP 88,
KnT 1512, 1925, ClT 1181, FrankT 1170, Pity 27, Tr 2.7, 5.348) to five (KnT ...
An anomalous intermixture of dissyllabic and trissyllabic feet is also common in
our old minstrel songs, and dissyllabic feet are sometimes introduced in modern
poems on ludicrous subjects in triple measure, and without materially hurting the
...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1774
10
Modern Chinese: A Second Course
The suffix "J" is also placed between the two forms of the verb, and in such a case
the numeral — may be omitted, e.g. I took a look at (skimmed through) that novel.
After visiting a little while in his dorm, his friend left. (2) The dissyllabic verb ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISSYLLABIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
dissyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
'Fairness and integrity': The New Yorker endorses President Obama
(Umlaut indicates a shift from one vowel sound to another, while diaeresis indicates that the vowel is dissyllabic with the adjacent vowel, rather ... «Patheos, Oct 12»
The Oddest English Spellings, Part 20
By way of conclusion, here is a curious example of interplay between shortening in a dissyllabic word and folk etymology. Once the word ... «OUPblog, May 12»
