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Things syllable often describes ("syllable ________")
- verses
- series
- divisions
- division
- metre
- utterances
- based
- pronunciation
- tanka
- measure
- haiku
- poem
- name
- timing
- mantra
- structure
- boundary
- couplets
- combinations
- roots
- poems
- verbs
- nouns
- patterns
- count
- window
- words
- timed
- lengthening
- length
- unit
- deletion
- consonants
- stress
- quatrains
- answers
- feet
- onsets
- breaks
- position
- sounds
- adverbs
- list
- phrase
- meter
- line
- accent
- adjective
- utterance
- couplet
- names
- rhyme
- lists
- stems
- phrases
- sentence
- units
- verb
- pattern
- groups
- counting
- type
- verse
- ending
- sound
- rhymes
- noun
- sequences
- intervals
- weight
- types
- repetitions
- learning
- nonwords
- men
- counts
- foot
- adjectives
- repetition
- boundaries
- items
- form
- pairs
- signs
- word
- quatrain
- lines
- sentences
- vowels
- stanza
- expressions
- peaks
- call
How syllable often is described ("________ syllable")
- extra
- sacred
- third
- tonic
- vowel
- light
- closed
- extrametrical
- distinct
- seventh
- phonetic
- single
- stressed
- metrical
- letter
- superfluous
- wrong
- reduplicated
- terminal
- heavy
- spoken
- additional
- accented
- sixth
- mystic
- open
- emphatic
- penultimate
- second
- meaningless
- consonant
- rightmost
- initial
- eighth
- antepenultimate
- rhyming
- fourth
- short
- unaccented
- supernumerary
- nonsense
- pretonic
- eleventh
- added
- long
- separate
- least
- first
- phonological
- medial
- middle
- utter
- unstressed
- weak
- prominent
- fifth
- final
- redundant
- radical
- last
- neutral
- tenth
