unsyllabic

• Adjetivo raro e técnico que designa algo que não forma sílaba ou que não é silábico, sobretudo em fonética e fonologia.

An obsolete adjective meaning not forming a syllable or not syllabic; rarely used in modern English.

1. Not forming a syllableC2formal

   Describing a speech sound that does not form a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; typically a consonant sound that is accompanied by a vowel in the same syllable, or a vowel sound that is dominated by another vowel in a diphthong.

   Não silábico

   • In the word 'play', the 'y' is unsyllabic because it is part of a diphthong.
   • The second vowel in a falling diphthong is often considered unsyllabic.
   • Linguists analyze unsyllabic sounds to understand syllable structure.

   Sinônimosnonsyllabic

   Antônimossyllabic