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ambisyllabicity

ambisyllabicity noun: the property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".

Noun

ambisyllabicity (uncountable)

  1. The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".

Origin of ambisyllabicity

From ambi- + syllabicity.

Questions about ambisyllabicity

What does ambisyllabicity mean?
Ambisyllabicity means the property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".
What part of speech is ambisyllabicity?
Ambisyllabicity is a noun.

Words near ambisyllabicity in the dictionary

  1. ambisonics
  2. ambispective
  3. ambispectively
  4. ambisyllabic
  5. ambisyllabically
  6. ambisyllabicity
  7. ambisyllabics
  8. ambisyllabification
  9. ambisyllable
  10. ambisyllables
  11. ambit

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