In sum, disyllables have the same phonetic and developmental relation to monosyllables that falls have to rises.
The foregoing complexities regarding the weight of unstressed syllables have their most important repercussions for nonlexical monosyllables.
A second person carried out reliability measurements of two randomly selected monosyllables for each of two infants in each age group.
Nor would a tonal morpheme or boundary tone per se explain why monosyllables required special treatment.
Thus, the monosyllable variant worse is unobjectionable in terms of rhythmic alternation and is used in the majority of cases.
In addition, 96 monosyllable words containing either a word-final \t\ or \d\ were presented as filler items.
This implies that a stressed monosyllable like cat is developmentally equivalent to a disyllable like tiger but different from a cat or giraffe.
However, in a way suggesting intentionality, the preschoolers (similar to adults) changed pitch at a much faster rate in the short span of monosyllables.
