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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
In modern English all the disyllabic and trisyllabic words have only recessive stress, e.g. colour, marriage.
Treeswifts calls have been described as a squeal, with a few syllables grouped together to form a disyllabic or trisyllabic call.
In early Middle English short vowels of whatever origin were lengthened in the open stressed syllables of disyllabic words.
I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.
In Chhatthare Limbu, The sequence of CVCV, CVCCV, CVCVC and CVCCVC constitutes disyllabic pattern.
As the names of many Vietnamese letters are disyllabic, it would be less convenient to pronounce an initialism by its individual letters.
This means that a word which is underlyingly trisyllabic is realized as a disyllabic word on the surface representation.
Feet in Livonian consist of one to three syllables, with disyllabic feet being the most typical.
Due to the high frequency of pf disyllabic roots, of the kind CVCV, CVN, or CVV, Mande was written in syllabary.
The findings of the study revealed that the perception of monosyllabic words was significantly lower than the perception of disyllabic words.
It has often been claimed that linguistic evolution leads toward monosyllabicity and that an artificial international language should therefore contain no disyllabic words.
Examples from Classical Literature
The loud, musical, disyllabic call of the male is also very characteristic.
The septenary line, however, in its strict form admits only of monosyllabic caesura and disyllabic ending.
A disyllabic thesis at the beginning or in the middle of the line also frequently occurs.
Hemistichs of this type, on the other hand, with a disyllabic first thesis are not uncommon, syan frum wox Beow.
This French metre consists of eight syllables when the ending is monosyllabic, and nine when it is disyllabic.
In these poems the disyllabic thesis, the slurring of syllables, and other rhythmical licences, also more frequently occur.
We seldom find three-foot verses with disyllabic rhymes throughout.
The distinction is really one between monosyllabic and disyllabic roots.
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