Martha Stewart's grandchildren are advanced. According to the entertaining mogul, her daughter Alexis's toddlers, Jude, 3, and Truman, 2, are already quite the linguists. Sections
A syllable is a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, loosely, a single sound. All words are made from at least one syllable. Monosyllables are words that have have only one vowel sound; polysyllables have more than one. If a syllable ends with a consonant, it is called a closed syllable. If a syllable ends with a vowel, it is called an open syllable. Patterns of syllables can be shown with C and V (C for 'consonant', V for 'vowel'). Closed syllables are often shown as CVC (such as got), and open syllables as CV (such as go).
If it's trembling uncontrollably, or hiding under the blankets, it's probably a stressed syllable. Okay, serious answer. A stressed syllable is a syllable that has emphasis within a word (or within a line of poetry). So the best way to tell is to say the word in an overly dramatic way, choosing different syllables to emphasize. For example, let's say we have the word emphasize, and we want to figure out which syllable is stressed.