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Definition of Syllabics
1. syllabic [n] - See also: syllabic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllabics
Literary usage of Syllabics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The list of the most usual syllabics of known value, in the Pharaonic period,
... syllabics, as well as ideographs, can be written alone or with phonetic ..."
2. University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature (1917)
"20 syllabics never follow each other without an intervening non- syllabic. ...
Nor do more than two non-syllabics ever follow each other in a native word. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"In other languages the duration of non-syllabics is not automatic (ie does not
depend on the ... Such long uon-syllabics differ from doubled sounds (p. ..."
4. A Primer of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1892)
"Syllables are marked ], non-syllabics ), when necessary. 151. The relation between
syllabic and non-syllabic is evidently a purely relative one. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The list of the most usual syllabics of known value, in the Pharaonic period,
... syllabics, as well as ideographs, can be written alone or with phonetic ..."
6. University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature (1917)
"20 syllabics never follow each other without an intervening non- syllabic. ...
Nor do more than two non-syllabics ever follow each other in a native word. ..."
7. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"In other languages the duration of non-syllabics is not automatic (ie does not
depend on the ... Such long uon-syllabics differ from doubled sounds (p. ..."
8. A Primer of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1892)
"Syllables are marked ], non-syllabics ), when necessary. 151. The relation between
syllabic and non-syllabic is evidently a purely relative one. ..."
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