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Definition of Nonsyllabic
1. Adjective. Not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong). "The nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'"
2. Adjective. (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable. "Initial 'l' in 'little' is nonsyllabic"
Definition of Nonsyllabic
1. Adjective. Not syllabic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonsyllabic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsyllabic
Literary usage of Nonsyllabic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale University Psychological Laboratory, Edward Wheeler Scripture (1902)
"SYLLABLES The common philological notation for the nonsyllabic function is the
mark under the sound-sign modified. As this requires new types in most cases, ..."
2. German Orthography and Phonology: A Treatise with a Word-list by George Hempl (1897)
"5 " " " narrow " " usage varying (§ 159) between long and short. g " short " " " "
nonsyllabic because next to a more sonorous sound, § 146 N, 77, ..."
3. Biblia by Charles Henry Stanley Davis (1905)
"... the development of the language is arrested ; for, from the fact that the
language is nonsyllabic, the syllabic stage is identical with that of rebus. ..."
4. The Articulations of Speech Sounds Represented by Means of Analphabetic Symbols by Otto Jespersen (1889)
"Finally the function of a sound as syllabic or nonsyllabic is shown in one way
with the consonants (modifier) and in another with the vowels (height of the ..."
5. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (1903)
"All diphthongs, and nonsyllabic w and j count as vowels. This M. Loth does not
understand so well. He marks a correspondence of w's even when one is a vowel ..."
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