different between syllabic vs syllabicity

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sullabikós), from ??????? (sullab?, “syllable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??læb.?k/
• Rhymes: -æb?k
• Hyphenation: syl?lab?ic

Adjective

syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)

1. Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
2. Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
3. (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([??dl?]), the two syllabic sounds are [?] and [l?].
4. Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

syllabic (plural syllabics)

1. (linguistics) A syllabic sound.

English

Etymology

syllabic +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (weak vowel distinction) IPA^(key): /?s?l??b?s?ti/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?s?l??b?s?ti/

Noun

syllabicity (uncountable)

1. The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.

   The syllabicity of Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonorants *y and *w can easily be determined by a rule.

Derived terms

• ambisyllabicity