What name is given to two vowel-sounds pronounced as one syllable?
Syllable weight example, the first syllable of the word ' is heavy ("long by nature") because it contains a diphthong, regardless of the sounds coming after it. Likewise, the first syllable of the second line (the first of the word ') is heavy ("long by nature") because it contains a long vowel, and it will be heavy no matter what sounds come after. Terming a syllable "long by position" is equivalent to noting that the syllable ends with a consonant (a closed syllable), because Latin and Greek speakers in the classical era pronounced a consonant as part of a preceding syllable only
Syllable rime "at". This syllable can be abstracted as a "consonant-vowel-consonant" syllable, abbreviated "CVC". Languages vary greatly in the restrictions on the sounds making up the onset, nucleus and coda of a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. Although every syllable has supra-segmental features, these are usually ignored if not semantically relevant, e.g. in tonal languages. In Chinese syllable structure, the onset is replaced with an initial, and a semivowel or liquid forms another segment, called the medial. These four segments are grouped into two slightly different components: In many languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area,