ambisyllabicity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ambi- +‎ syllabicity

Noun[edit]

ambisyllabicity (uncountable)

  1. (poetry, phonetics) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".

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