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syllable
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syllable

Unit of pronunciation within a word, or as a monosyllabic word, made by a vowel or a combination of vowels and consonants. For example, the word ‘competition’ contains four syllables: ‘com/pe/ti/tion’.
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Ingrian also displays lengthening of consonants between the first and second vowel of trisyllabic words, where it is most pervasive if the first syllable is open and contains a short vowel (1d) but is also observed occasionally if the first syllable is heavy (1e).
Prominence and gemination in Ingrian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Gordon, Matthew / Linguistica Uralica
The loss of the final -e marker in these formations has been attributed to their trisyllabic structure rather than analogical influence of other declensional type: as trisyllabic formations, they tended to lose the final -e marker regularly.
Disintegration of the nominal inflection in Anglian: the case of ... by Adamczyk, Elzbieta / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Not "Ms Engel" or even "Natascha Engel", just the plain yet resonant, trisyllabic "Natascha".
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