The rapid change in pitch in monosyllables, however, would require a concerted degree of purposeful effort even if the contour was falling.
We present first our findings for monosyllables and then proceed to findings for disyllables.
The rate of pitch change is more than 40% greater in the monosyllable than in the disyllable.
She provides only for monosyllables and disyllables with a final schwa syllable.
We may be thankful that our linguistic forebears reduced this to a familiar monosyllable.
Not uncommonly, an entire line may consist of monosyllables.
But, since the stress mark is non-contrastive in monosyllables, the effects are the same.
However, in a way suggesting intentionality, the preschoolers (similar to adults) changed pitch at a much faster rate in the short span of monosyllables.
