(3) Resolution is a process of syllabic equivalence whereby a short stressed syllable and its unstressed successor count metrically as a single long stressed syllable--that is,
disyllables like sele and draca can be metrically equivalent to monosyllables like sael and deor.
Fu, "Development and validation of the Mandarin
disyllable recognition test," Acta otolaryngologica, vol.
Berg (1989) reinforces this point by suggesting that unstressed initial syllables may be treated as a 'phonological appendix' to an onset-rime (
disyllable) or onset-superrime (polysyllable) division (see Figure 2).
Note, however, that while Duanmu's formulation can predict the choice between monosyllable and
disyllable when both alternatives are available, it stops short of disallowing metrically awkward structures when no disyllabic alternative is present.
Rhythmically, we witness a process of erosion and fragmentation: the line shortens by a syllable (8 [greater than] 7) and the elements within the lines resist rhythmic cohesion: 'bientot' is difficult to assimilate rhythmically, and the line unravels itself into an expressionless sequence of
disyllables; the second line has a more easily identifiable syntactic shape, but this remains hardly perceptible given its flat string of monosyllables and the awkward pre-modifying construction ('le tres lent feu').
Amory and Goldgar do not notice that Fielding's omnium at the end of line 10 is unmetrical, unless we suppose him to be scanning it as a
disyllable by synizesis, a violent and unclassical procedure in this particular case.
In Welsh, although the first syllable of a
disyllable is normally stressed, this is manifested by a short first-syllable vowel followed by a lengthened medial consonant and a long second vowel (see Vihman et al.
The feet in which a CVC[LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
disyllable can appear, will always be one syllable longer than those in which a CVC monosyllable may figure, or won't they?
x ??x), in which each metrical position is matched with exactly a monosyllable (including a resolved
disyllable) as specified above (e.g.
For lip-reading stimuli, consecutive frames of a feminine face pronouncing
disyllable Chinese words were presented at a moderate speed.
Short illatives are subject to a prosodic requirement: they must be larger than the minimal prosodic foot in Estonian, i.e., larger than a heavy monosyllable or light
disyllable. If the partitive singular of a nominal is larger than a prosodic foot, then the short illative is identical to the partitive singular.
(2) A simplex word is one that is either a monosyllable, or a
disyllable ending with one of the following unstressed suffixes:/-er -el -en -et-es -el-em-ed-an -eb -ek -ez -ens -o -i -o -li/.
However, this representation also means that there is stress clash in the
disyllable, which triggers a violation on the higher-ranked *CLASH.
can induce any monosyllable or
disyllable to lose all or some of its stress" (235).
