unsyllabicadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by syllables
polysyllable1589
polysyllabical1656
monosyllabic1766
polysyllabic1774
polysyllabilingual1824
unsyllabic1864
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > not
unsyllabled1591
asyllabical1751
asyllabic1827
non-syllabic1864
unsyllabic1864
1864 J. Ingelow Poems 69 What work so high as mine,..Nature's..unsyllabic voices to combine.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 56 The sound that possesses the highest degree of sonority in a syllable is called syllabic or sonant, the others are unsyllabic or con-sonant.
1964 H. Kurath in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 146 There is no difference in the system of consonants, except that unsyllabic |ə̯|..appears only in dialects that lack postvocalic |r|.
1970 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1968 l. 6 The unsyllabic phone [ə̯]..will here be treated as the semi-vowel /ə̯/.
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