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In the polysyllabic conditions, 1 child did not produce any falling contours and 4 children did not produce any rising contours.
They uncover an additional phonological factor : vowel insertion is more likely in monosyllabic than in polysyllabic words.
In these dialects, accent falls on the initial syllable of polysyllabic forms, which retains its lexical tone.
There was substantially more deletion of tokens in monosyllabic words (22.2%) than in polysyllabic words (14.7%) in the overall dataset.
This is exemplified below with nouns that are low-toned on the first syllable in their non-diminutive polysyllabic prefixed form.
The polysyllabic word forgot allows 'th' despite its final syllable stress arguably because the high frequency monosyllabic word got exhibits it.
In sum, polysyllabic utterances potentially entail an extra degree of effort at the respiratory and/or laryngeal levels of speech control.
The fact that the final syllable of a polysyllabic word is never stressed follows from an undominated constraint.
This is seen mainly in a love of polysyllabic words: / bin anaialetam?
In sum, children's accent range production is the same whether utterances are defined by monosyllabic versus polysyllabic tones or by iambic versus trochaic rhythms.
A polysyllabic language was a later phenomenon and appeared at the same time as polytheism.
These representations make explicit the syllables of a word and, for polysyllabic words, the stress pattern across syllables.
This time, the conditioning environment for polysyllabic words is phonological.
The process has spread from occurring solely in monosyllabic words with short vowels to polysyllabic words which end in a syllable with a weak vowel.
Since their source words are usually tri- or polysyllabic, their degree of shortening can be described as typically medium.
