0 (of a word) having three syllables:
The study of French-speaking children found that determiners were produced earlier with monosyllabic words, and later with disyllabic and trisyllabic words.
There are few monosyllabic female first names (Ann, Joan, May) and many of them are trisyllabic or more (Katharine, Elizabeth, Amanda).
When the secondary stress was lost, the initial stressed vowel in trisyllabic words was usually shortened, as shown in the examples below.
He suggests that the presence of secondary stress caused vowels to remain short in both disyllabic and trisyllabic words.
The nouns chosen were usually bisyllabic with initial stress (in some cases trisyllabic with initial or penultimate stress, or monosyllabic with a sonorant coda).
In conclusion, there seems to be more agreement on length in trisyllabic loans, which most assumed to have been short, although for different reasons.
This prediction will be tested on disyllabic and trisyllabic words.
The possible metrical patterns for trisyllabic words are: ()(), ()() and ()()().
