0 a word or part of a word that has one vowel sound -- слог
'But' has one syllable and 'apple' has two syllables.
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single coda consonant is stressed.
At the same time, stressed syllables are more 'powerful' than unstressed ones.
The best way to elicit a schwa is to direct attention away from it and on to the stressed syllable of the word.
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
Under this approach it is stressed and adjacent syllables that are expected to surface in children's early words.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
The second factor was identified as short-term verbal memory and included final syllable deletion in both languages.
