disyllabic
- adjective
- /ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk/
- Specialized
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disilábico
- The word 'disyllabic' has two distinct syllables: 'di' and 'syllabic'.
- disyllabic word
- disyllabic plural
- disyllabic forms
Examples
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Each stimulus sentence was in the present tense and consisted of two monosyllabic words plus the disyllabic target noun to control for utterance length (i.e., three words with a total of four syllables per sentence in all conditions).
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Regarding word length, Kirk and Demuth (2006) found that codas of monosyllabic words are produced more accurately than codas of disyllabic words.
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Yet, their high frequency did not spare them the fate of all forms associated with the disyllabic infinite.
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Once again, we witness the vanishing of more forms of this paradigm along with the disappearance of disyllabic veer.
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For all children in all times, 20 mono- and disyllabic word tokens were produced. However, some children did not produce 20 multisyllabic word tokens at each time (some produced as few as four).
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As both plural types were represented by disyllabic words with the same CVC? z segmental structures, it is unlikely that increased word length is the main factor contributing to their later acquisition.
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As already mentioned above, the Old Spanish past participle, veido (derived from OSp. veer), disappeared along with the disyllabic infinitive.
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The frivolity of the disyllabic rhyme adds to the cynicism of this, the most blasphemous of all Peer’s speeches.
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In poetry, a line with a disyllabic structure often creates a rhythmic quality that is pleasing to the ear.
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Children learning to read often find disyllabic words easier to pronounce than longer, multisyllabic ones.
Synonyms
A word that has two syllables
How Many Syllables
Surface Forms
Morphology
disyllabic = syllabic (transparent) = di + syllab + ic
Formed by prefixing 'di-' (two) to the adjective 'syllabic' meaning 'of syllables', so the immediate morphological step is straightforward.
Etymology
Disyllabic comes from the parts di- meaning 'two' and syllable meaning a 'beat' or sound part of a word, so it names words made of two syllables. A helpful way to remember it is to think of common words like 'table' or 'candle' that are disyllabic, and the funny fact is that the word disyllabic is not itself two syllables.