monosyllabicity
English
Etymology
Noun
monosyllabicity (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
- 1976, Yuen Ren Chao, Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, p. 93:
- The monosyllabicity of Chinese morphemes and units of writing has certain advantages in the use of operational synonyms of symbols under varying conditions of use.
- 1996, Joan Collins, Infamous, →ISBN, p. 113:
- He was attractive, in a sinister yet compelling way, but taciturn to the point of monosyllabicity.
- 2001, Anatoly Liberman (ed. and translator), N. S. Trubetzkoy: Studies in general linguistics and language structure, Duke Univ. Press, →ISBN, p. 69:
- It has often been claimed that linguistic evolution leads toward monosyllabicity and that an artificial international language should therefore contain no disyllabic words.
- 1976, Yuen Ren Chao, Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, p. 93: