polysyllabic word in a sentence
Examples
- Outside of these pairs, the main tendency for tone is that the acute accent appears in monosyllables ( since the grave accent cannot appear in monosyllabic words ) while the grave accent appears in polysyllabic words.
- Semantic change is common in loanwords; when foreign words are borrowed into Cantonese, polysyllabic words and monosyllabic words tend to become disyllabic, and the second syllable is in the Upper Rising tone ( the second tone ).
- The final syllable before the caesura in the first half of the line makes full rhyme with the penultimate syllable of the line-final polysyllabic word ( i . e . the main stressed syllable of the second half ).
- "Polysyllabic words tend to have-os, " the newest edition observes, adding punchinellos to the earlier editions'archipelagos ( although Webster's New World Dictionary prefers archipelagoes ), armadillos, generalissimos, and manifestos.
- As well as analysing the distribution of a large number of rhetorical devices throughout the play, he also devised three new authorship tests; an analysis of polysyllabic words, an analysis of the distribution of alliteration and an analysis of vocatives.
- Polysyllabic words receive primary stress on the first syllable, with secondary stresses tending to occur on alternate syllables thereafter; this rhythm may be broken by the structure of the word, so that there are sometimes three-syllable stress groups.
- Taft, Marcus and Kenneth I . Forster . " Lexical Storage and Retrieval of Polymorphemic and Polysyllabic Words . " Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 15.6 ( 1976 ) : 607-620.27 Apr . 2014.
- Frequency orders are based largely on " Xiandai Hanyu Pinl?Cidian " for monosyllabic entries and " Zhongwen Shumianyu Pinl?Cidian "-N�efNb�틑��s͋xQ " Dictionary of the Chinese Written Language " for polysyllabic words ( 1996 : xiii ).
- Today Modern Mandarin has numerous polysyllabic words, and each syllable is written with a distinct character, the conceptual link between character and word or at least morpheme remains strong, and no need is felt for word separation apart from what characters already provide.
- The Chinese-English section's head entries are not single characters, as in traditional Chinese dictionaries, but monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, which are alphabetically collated using a newly devised system for resultative compound ( RC ) and transitive verb ( V ).