0 containing three or more syllables:
The word "internationalism" is polysyllabic.
Since their source words are usually tri- or polysyllabic, their degree of shortening can be described as typically medium.
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.
This time, the conditioning environment for polysyllabic words is phonological.
These representations make explicit the syllables of a word and, for polysyllabic words, the stress pattern across syllables.
A polysyllabic language was a later phenomenon and appeared at the same time as polytheism.
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.
This is seen mainly in a love of polysyllabic words: / bin anaialetam?
The fact that the final syllable of a polysyllabic word is never stressed follows from an undominated constraint.
