Syllables in our
writing - How many syllables do these rules say that ‘every’ has?
Short answer:
Because of a phonological process know as compression, every can be said with either 2 or 3 syllables. This happens to coincide with the "written method" described (see full post below) which comes up with exactly that answer. There's no way round the two answer problem. Writing, of course, doesn't consist of sound and therefore doesn't have syllables, and this is part of the issue.
Full answer:
Well, all of these rules are problematic. To give an example, the chin one won't work at all if a consonant at the beginning of a syllable requires the mouth to be more open than the following vowel. This is what happens in the second syllable of the word sorry. Your chin's only going to hit your hand for the first syllable there, not the second (try it!). However, setting those many various issues aside, let's have a look at the interesting problem that the Original Poster is having with the word every.
Special features of Every:
There's a reason why the Original Poster is having a problem with every, in particular. As mentioned in the comments by @Peter Shor and @John Lawler, pronunciation varies between individuals, and also within the speech of any given single individual. So a given person might say the word every with either two or three syllables depending on many different factors, for example the number of unstressed syllables following the word, how fast they're speaking, who they're speaking to and why they're speaking in the first place. The reason this is possible is that the word every is liable to a phonetic and phonological process known as ᴄᴏᴍᴘʀᴇssɪᴏɴ.
English syllables come in two parts. There's the Onset and the Rhyme. The rhyme is obligatory, but the onset is an optional feature. The onset is usually a consonant or group of consonants at the beginning of the syllable, before the vowel. The rhyme is everything else.
So in the word cat /kæt/, the onset is /k/ and the rhyme is /æt/.
Now the rhyme is further split into two parts. It has the most sonorous musical and vowellish part, the Nucleus, which is obligatory. It can also have a Coda, which involves the syllable getting both quieter and less sonorant. Codas are usually consonants or consonant clusters. So in /kæt/ the nucleus is /æ/ and the coda is /t/. The syllable itself represents a peak in sonority. If it has an onset and a coda, then these will represent the dips in sonority at either end of the syllable.
Notice that I said that nucleuses are usually vowels. This is because we can, in special circumstances, have a syllabic consonant. This is when the nucleus of a syllable is a consonant. For example, in the word criticism /krɪtɪsɪzm/, the last syllable just consists of an /m/ sound. The consonants /r, l/ and the nasals /m, n, ŋ/ also frequently occur as syllabic consonants in English.
Back to every.
The most expanded pronunciation of the word every is this:
- /'evəri/
I've used the standard UK transcription here, as used by John Wells in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. You will see that the second vowel there is a schwa /ə/, a mid-central vowel which only ever occurs in unstressed syllables.
If we agree with Wells that, other things being equal, a consonant will usually be syllabified with a stressed syllable when between two vowels, then the /v/ in every belongs in the first, stressed syllable. In the pronunciation of every shown above, the second syllable has no onset and consists of just a rhyme with a schwa as its nucleus.
In English when a schwa is followed by an /l/ or /r/ or a nasal such as /m, n, ŋ/ there is usually an alternative possible pronunciation, which has no schwa, but instead uses the following consonant as a nucleus, in other words as a syllabic consonant. When transcribing the word, this can be shown by using a small diacritic under the consonant in question.
With the word every this would look like this:
- /'evr̩i/
This pronunciation of every, like the one shown in (1) has three syllables, but this time the nucleus of the second syllable is the consonant /r/. This consonant will have a longer duration here than it would if occurring in an onset or a coda.
For most speakers, however, it is possible for a further reduction to take place and for the /r/ there to become the onset of the following syllable. In this case the /r/ will be quieter and significantly shorter in duration. This 'process' results in the loss of a syllable, of course. The resulting pronunciation is shown below:
- /evri/
In the second and last syllable here the /r/ is the onset and /i/ the nucleus.
This same type of variation can be seen in (4, 5) below:
- happening: hæpənɪŋ --> hæpn̩ɪŋ --> hæpnɪŋ
- pedalling: pedəlɪŋ --> pədl̩ɪŋ --> pedlɪŋ
This is one type of compression.
There are others.
The Original Poster's Question
The Original Poster asks how many syllables every has according to the "Written Method." The answer here is easy: 2 or 3. If the person applying the rule arbitrarily decides that the pronunciation is /'evəri/, then they will decide that the second < e > in every has a sound and is not a silent letter. In this case every has three syllables according to the given rules. However, if they decide the pronunciation is /'evri/, then the second < e > in every is silent and they will therefore need to subtract 1 to find the number of syllables, giving them the answer 2. The reality is that writing doesn't have syllables (apart from those assigned in the mind of the reader).
I can hear some people saying "OK, but which pronunciation is the right one, the one with two syllables or the one with three? [Sigh.
Whatever happened to free speech?!]
There is no correct pronunciation. The rules of English phonology allow for both. Native speakers use both. That's all there is to it. If you're looking to beat yourself with a riding crop for using the wrong one, go ahead, feel free. Make your choice and stick with it and administer your punishment accordingly. If you feel a deep need to apply your riding crop to others, however, please do ask first.
pronunciation - How many syllables in "every"?
Ask Question
Asked
Modified 4 years, 11 months ago
Viewed 20k times
I've come across answers that say something along the lines of, "Well I've only heard people pronounce it ev'ry.
"
Yeah, well if people started mass-jumping off of buildings, that doesn't mean I'd do it.
All jokes aside, my point is that people pronounce words differently depending on where you live. "Vietnom" versus "Vietnam", "fahr" (one syllable) versus "fire" (fy-yer).
I'm sort of conflicted about even asking this question, because it's something I need to know for a poem. But in poetry it can be okay to bend/break rules, whether it be slightly changing the enunciation or pronunciation of a word, or not using capitalization in the case of haiku, etc.
Still, tl;dr, I was just curious what people on here thought.
If it's only two syllables, why? If "ever" is a two syllable word--why wouldn't it be ev-er-ee?
What would make "ev-er-ee" wrong? Some old rule in a dusty tome buried by the sands of time?
- pronunciation
- poetry
- syllables
8
The word every started out as a contraction of Old English ǽfre ǽlc (each of a group), and the OED gives many Middle English spellings, such as efrec, which only indicate two syllables.
Others, such as æveric, do indicate three. It's hard to tell whether they really pronounced it with three syllables, or whether they were spelling it so as to show the relation to the word ever.
If you look at Shakespeare's sonnets, he invariably pronounces every with two syllables. For example, in
Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so,
if you pronounce every with three syllables, the line doesn't scan.
The two-syllable pronunciation has existed since Middle English. People who pronounce it evry aren't wrong in any sense.
So to answer your question: If it's only two syllables, why?
Because some people have been pronouncing it with two syllables from the time when they shoved the two words ǽfre ǽlc together to get efrec.
The OED gives both the two-syllable and the three-syllable pronunciations, and I certainly think it's acceptable to use either pronunciation in a poem.
Every is one of an interesting class of words that are often pronounced with a different number of syllables for emphasis.
The dictionaries generally describe it as having two; /ˈɛvri/ (Oxford British English), /ˈevrē/ (Oxford American English), \ˈev-rē\ (Mirriam-Webster), and that is the more common pronunciations.
But of course there are often several pronunciations found for many words and most dictionaries will only list one or two "received" pronunciations, and every is indeed found pronounced /ˈɛvəri/ and similar.
This is normal enough, vowels (especially schwas) get dropped so it's not strange that most people pronounce the word with two syllables while there are some that still use three. The interesting bit is that many people who pronounce it with two would use three for emphasis, so in saying "I looked at every receipt and every one of them had the wrong price" they would use /ˈɛvri/ for the first every and /ˈɛvəri/ for the second.
Maybe when they (or we, since I would do this) do this we're thinking of the spelling, or maybe we think of it has having three syllables even though we pronounce it with only two and that notion is given voice when we try to emphasise. Whatever the reason, it's an interesting phenomenon.
2
Cards-simulators on the topic "Division of words into syllables". 1st class
- Khitaylenko Tatyana Leonidovna, primary school teacher
Sections: Russian language
Class: 1
Keywords: Russian language, dividing words into syllables
CARD #1
Complete the syllable to make a word.
| re… | Lu… | barrel |
| no… | hot… | no… |
| | no… | tea… |
| ball… | co… | me… |
| Lu… | re… | co… |
CARD №2
Make words from the last syllables of words. Write down the received words.
Clouds, bark, shallows - ...
Salo, mortar, cotton wool - ...
Buy, feather, snowball - ...
Palm tree, eagles, ruffs - ...
A lot, scarecrow, sock - ...
Muse, trains, luck - ...
CARD №3
Choose a certain syllable from each word and make a new word with it.
Example: ka sha, re ka, ta rail - carriage.
ear, company, vase - _____________________
milk, seine, cockroach - _____________________
scythe, loto, boxer - _________________________
ram, wound, jar - _________________________
CARD #4
Divide words into syllables wherever possible.
- morning
- cake
- pipe
- mole
- work
- jumpers
- tie
- sport
- exhibition
- hurricane
- pines
- fox
- sheet
- wolf
- oak
- barrel
- cranberries
- trails
- boron
- mists
CARD #5
Write the sentences using punctuation marks.
Divide the children's names into syllables.
- good, yard, hill, ours, in
- her guys made
- Natasha, drove, Yakov, snow, and
- rolled up, and, Zoya, snow, Julia, clods, in
_______________________________________
_____________________________________________
_______________________________________
CARD #6
Name the objects shown. Write the words by dividing them into syllables.
CARD №7
Underline the words that cannot be transferred: CARD №8 Indicate the words incorrectly separated by a hyphen: Le - yka, May - ka, axis - on, gu - lyat, gu - lyat, crop - zhay, e - tazh, corner - ky, Il-ya, Zha-nna. CARD №9 Write down the words - the names of objects with division for transfer. ___________________________________________ CARD #10 Read the text. Separate words for transfer. The weather is cold today. Lacy snowflakes burn brightly in the sun. A flock of sparrows sits on the branches of a tree. They chirp loudly. CARD #11 Write the text with punctuation marks. Underline the words that cannot be divided for transfer. Fruits and vegetables can grow in a greenhouse all year round pebbles and nutrient mixture replace the earth with them instead of the sun bright lamps light up this is what a person came up with0005 CARD #12 Change the word so that it can be divided for hyphenation. Think of your own two examples. House - __________, ____________ - ______________ , Maple - __________, ____________ - ______________ . Topic: The division of words into syllables and the definition of a stressed syllable. Learn to divide words into syllables. How many vowels, so many syllables. Words: Answer: 1) I, 2) her, 3) ate, 4) snow, 5) piglet 
Dividing words into syllables.
Then learn to identify the stressed syllable. How many syllables are in the words:
family, hat, fur coat, mine, paw, sofa, her ?
Correct answers:
How many syllables are in the words:
window, error, ceiling, village, silence ?
Correct answers:
crossroads, TV, shooting?
Correct answers:
The same number of syllables in words:
diet, dilemma, modernism, parsley, kitten ?
Correct answers:
How many syllables are in the word
philological ?
Correct answers:
How many syllables are in the words:
may, he, oh, ah, table, hundred, heat ?
Correct answers:
Is it necessary to show stress in words:
crab, hedgehog, honey, eponymous, edge, cry ?
Correct answers:
calls, took, turns on, atlas (fabric)?
Correct answers:
Which syllable is stressed in words:
scarves, bows, ports, significance ?
Correct answers:
What syllable is stressed in words:
along the rivers, on Wednesdays, stalls, carpenter ?
Correct answers:
Topic: Correlation of letters and sounds.
Characteristics of sounds.
with filming, privo z ti, s ito?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters:
sh ate, h then, sh oroh?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters: o
tz a, old tc i smile ts me?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters: 9 each0484 d
floor, rear d , t ratify?
, sound, soft What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters:
e economy, and gra, and story?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters:
in soon, f act, Cow in ?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters: ma
th ka, stro th , th od?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters:
e m, lift e building, e zdit?
What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters: gri
b , gri pp , Tulu p ?
, sound, tv. What sound is pronounced in words in place of the highlighted letters: с
ы R, L S M, w i us?
Correct answers:
Subject: Transcription.
1. Read the transcription, determine which words are presented and write them down in letters:
1) [y"a], 2) [y"y"o´ ], 3) [with "th" e´ l "and], 4), 5) [paras" o´ нк]*,
Attention! A simplified version of the transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition: [paras "o´ nak]* ], 2) [fs "o], 3) [pznako´ m "its: b] *, 4) [m "it" e´ l "], 5) [bass" e´ y "n],
Attention! A simplified version of the transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition: m "its: a] *
Answer:
1) everything, 2) everything, 3) get acquainted, 4) blizzard, 5) swimming pool,
3.
Read the transcription, determine which words are presented and write them in letters: Words:
1) [bаgaty´ p "] 1, 2) [n "it"], 3) [l "ingv" and´ s "t" ik] 2, 4) [ab "d" o´ m], 5) [kam "p" y "y´ tar] 3 ,
Attention! A simplified version of the transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition: [bagati´ p "] 1 , [l" ingv "i´ s "t" ika] 2, [kam" p "y" y´ tar] 3
Answer:
1) hero, 2) thread, 3) linguistics, 4) volume, 5) computer
0330
Words:
1) [fai "l], 2) [tr" e´ n "ink], 3) [s "e´ rts "e], 4) [drost], 5) [th "y´ pk]*,
Attention! A simplified version of transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition: [th "y´ pka]*
Answer:
1) file, 2) training, 3) heart, 4) thrush, 5) skirt
´ x "y"], 2) [w": from] *, 3) [kaz" o´ l], 4) [sv "o´ zdy], 5) [ly´ zhy]
Attention! A simplified version of the transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition: [w "from] *
Answer:
1) quiet, 2) counting, 3) goat, 4) stars, 5) skiing
Subject: Transcription compilation.
1. Transcribe the words:
1) gender, 2) house, 3) course, 4) tooth, 5) ladies
2. Transcribe the words:
1) mother, ice, lie, know, shadow
Answer:
[mat"], [l" from], [lgat"], [know"], [t "en"]
3. Transcribe the words:
1) water, 2) at home, 3) by myself, 4) window, 5) drove
Answer:
1) [vada´ ], 2) [lady´ ], 3) [itself´ ], 4) [akno´ ], 5) [waz’i´ l]
4. Transcribe the words:
1) wore, 2) drove, 3) noses, 4) soul, 5) skis
Answer:
1) [us" and´ l], 2) [wad "i´ l], 3) [nasy´ ], 4) [soul´ ], 5) [ly´ zhy]
5. Transcribe the words:
1) ball, 2) sword, 3) ball, 4) sword, 5) speech
Answer:
m], 4) [m "ich" o´ m], 5) [r’ech’]
6. Transcribe the words:
1) flow, 2) flows, 3) shadow, 4) speech, 5) north
Answer:
1) [t’ech’], 2) [t "ich" o´ t], 3) [t "e´ n’y’u], 4) [r "e´ h "y" y], 5) *
Attention! A simplified transcription widely accepted in the school tradition: *
7.
Transcribe the words: 1) good, 2) cold, 3) west, 4) pencil, 5) sausage
Answer:
1) [harasho´ ] 1 , 2) [ho´ ldn] 2, 3) [for´ нт] 3, 4) [karanda´ w] 4, 5) [k'lbasa´ ] 5
Attention! A simplified version of the transcription, widely accepted in the school tradition:
[harasho´ ] 1 , [ho´ okay] 2, [for´ pat] 3, [pencil´ w] 4 , [kalbasa´ ] 5
8. Transcribe the words:
1) samovar, 2) joy, 3) garden, 4) walk, 5) parachute
Answer:
1) p] 1 , 2) [pa´ ds "t"] 2, 3) [sado´ exit’], 4) [prague´ lx] 3, 5) [prashu´ t] 4
Attention! Simplified transcription:
[samava´ p] 1 , [pa´ das "t"] 2 , [prague´ lk] 3, [slope´ t] 4
In this article you will find information on how to make a phonetic analysis of the word - LIZARD.
Not everyone knows what phonetic analysis of a word is. In Russian grammar, this concept refers to the characteristics of the sound component. Moreover, the word must be broken not just into letters, but into sounds.
There are more sounds than letters. After all, some letters represent two sounds. Let's find out further how to parse the word - LIZARD into sounds in detail.
How many syllables, letters, sounds, sound A in the word LIZARD: scheme, transcription of the word in Russian
As mentioned above, there is a big difference between letters and sounds. Before carrying out phonetic analysis, let's consider a little theory of the issue.
What are the letters? These are the symbols that are used in writing. Letters form words in text. They are used for the visual presentation of words, a person perceives what is written with his eyes. These characters can be read. And when reading happens aloud, sounds are already formed here. More precisely, letters merge into syllables, and syllables into words. In total, the Russian language has thirty-three letters in the alphabet. It is customary to call the Russian alphabet - Cyrillic. Even first-graders know the order in which the letters in the alphabet are located thanks to the lessons of the Russian language.
The alphabet of Russian grammar contains vowels and consonants. More precisely, ten vowels and twenty-one consonants. It also includes a soft sign and a hard sign. With their help, they emphasize the softness or hardness of the consonant sound.
So we got closer to the concept of sounds. They are voice speech. Thanks to them, words are formed together. Sounds, like letters, are vowels, consonants. When they do a phonetic analysis of a word, they analyze it.
Some letters consist of two sounds. In particular:
- The letter E consists of the sound Y and the sound E
- The letter Yo consists of the sound Y and the sound O
- The letter Yu consists of the sound Y and the sound Y
- The letter I consists of the sound Y and the sound A
It is very interesting that if the vowel is unstressed, then letters such as E and Ya have the sound Y and the sound And they are written as: [YI]
Sounds must be heard, because they are not pronounced the way they are written.
An example of such a property:
- The word is children. The consonants T, C, as a rule, merge into one sound Ts.
Now let's analyze the word LIZARD
The transcription of this word is as follows:
[Y'ASCH'IR'ITSA]
The letter I - has two soft sounds [Y' ] - sonorant consonant, voiced, unpaired and soft sound [A] (vowel, stressed).
Letter W - [SCH' ] - hissing consonant, deaf and soft, unpaired.
Letter E - [I] vowel and unstressed
Letter P - [P' ] - sonorant consonant sound, unpaired voiced and soft
Letter I - one sound [I] (vowel and unstressed)
Letter Ts - [Ts] one consonant sound, unpaired deaf and hard
Letter A - [A] vowel and unstressed.
As you can see, the word has seven letters, eight sounds.
IMPORTANT : The vowel (I, Yu, E, Yo) at the beginning of a word always gives two sounds, since it is ioted. In the word lizard, this rule was applied.
Where does the stress in the word LIZARD fall?
In this word the stress falls on I - on the first syllable . There are four syllables in the word. The main phonetic component is the correct and clear pronunciation of vowels in those syllables that are stressed. They, as a rule, are distinguished precisely by their long sound and undistortedness. Thanks to this, you can clearly hear which letter to write in this word, for example: E or I. It is easier to make a phonetic analysis of the stressed syllable. In grammar, such a vowel position is called a strong position. The remaining vowels in the word have a weak position.
With sound analysis :
- the stressed vowel (strong position) is pronounced clearly with a longer sound.
- an unstressed syllable with a vowel (weak position) is read without a certain intonation, it does not sound as clear as a stressed one.
Lizard - phonetic analysis
As you can see, it is not so difficult to make a phonetic parsing of a word.
The main thing is to know some of the rules of Russian grammar and all the sounds, of which there are 42 in the Russian language.
Video: phonetic word analysis
Words are divided into syllables. Syllable is one sound or several sounds pronounced by one exhalation push of air.
Compare: wow, wow.
1. In Russian there are sounds of different audibility: vowels are more sonorous compared to consonants.
Precisely vowels form syllables, are syllabic.
Consonants are non-syllabic. When pronouncing a word, consonants "stretch" to vowels, forming a syllable together with vowels.
2. A syllable may consist of one sound (and then it is necessarily a vowel!) or several sounds (in this case, in addition to the vowel, the syllable has a consonant or a group of consonants).
Headband - o-bo-dock; country - country; night light - night light; miniature - mi-ni-a-tu-ra.
3. Syllables are open and closed.
Open syllable ends in a vowel.
Yes, country.
Closed syllable ends in a consonant.
Sleep liner.
There are more open syllables in Russian. Closed syllables are usually seen at the end of a word.
Compare: (first syllable open, second closed), o-bo-doc (the first two syllables are open, the third is closed).
In the middle of a word, a syllable usually ends in a vowel, and a consonant or group of consonants after a vowel usually goes to the next syllable!
Night light, tell me, announcer.
Please note!
Sometimes two consonants can be written in a word, but one sound, for example: izzh it [izh:yʹt']. Therefore, in this case, two syllables are distinguished: i-live .
Partitioning out-live complies with the rules of word hyphenation, not division into syllables!
The same can be traced on the example of the verb leave at , in which the combination of consonants zzh sounds like one sound ; so the division into syllables will be - y-e-clamp , and division into parts for transfer - leave-reap .
Errors are especially often observed when highlighting syllables in forms of verbs ending in -ts, -tsya .
- Division curl, squeeze is a hyphenation division, not a syllable division, since in such forms the combination of the letters ts, ts sounds like one sound [ts] .
- When dividing into syllables, combinations of letters ts, ts go entirely to the next syllable: vy-tsya, zhyo-tsya .
In the middle of a word, closed syllables can form only unpaired voiced consonants: [j], [p], [p'], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n'].
May wow, Sony -ka, co-crowbar -ka.
Please note!
When several consonants are combined in the middle of a word:
1) Two identical consonants necessarily go to the next syllable.
O-tt oh yeah yeah th.
2) Two or more consonants usually go to the next syllable.
Sha-pc a, ra-vn th.
Exception are combinations of consonants in which the first is an unpaired voiced (letters p, p, l, l, m, m, n, n, d ).
Mark, dawn, bull, insole, lady, bank, bath, lay.
4. The division into syllables often does not coincide with the division into parts of the word (prefix, root, suffix, ending) and with the division of the word into parts during transfer.
For example, the word calculated is divided into morphemes ras-count-a-nn-th ( races - prefix, count - root; a, nn - suffixes; th - end).
The same word is hyphenated as follows: calculated .
The word is divided into syllables as follows: calculated .
| Wrap rules | Examples |
|---|---|
| 1. As a rule, words are carried by syllables. Letters b, b, d are not separated from the previous letters. | Connector ride, blue -ka, my -ka. |
| 2. One letter cannot be moved or left on a line, even if it represents a syllable. | O bo-doc ; words autumn, name cannot be split for transfer. |
| 3. When transferring, you must not tear off the final consonant from the prefix. | From - flow, times -pouring. |
| 4. When transferring, you cannot tear off the first consonant from the root. | Order to spit, to repeat. |
| 5. When hyphenating words with double consonants, one letter remains on the line, while the other is hyphenated. | Ran uy, ter-r or, van-n a. |
| 6. Letter y after the prefix, it cannot be torn off from the root, but the part of the word that begins with the letter y should not be transferred . | times -say. |
Use the form below to quickly divide words into syllables online.
You can enter multiple words in the text field separated by spaces or commas. When you click the "Split into syllables" button, the result will be shown instantly in the text field. The form is designed to highlight syllables only in Russian words typed in Russian letters.
The form is useful for cases in which you need to break many words into syllables without details and background information. If you need to find out how many and what syllables are in words, what transfer options are, then use the search form or select words by the number of syllables in them:
Note.
1. Do not use the result of dividing words into syllables to determine where words break. The division into syllables and the allocation of places for word hyphenation are not always the same thing. Our website explains the difference in detail (points 4-5 of the syllable rules).
2. The division into syllables is carried out in accordance with the rules of the school curriculum. Some rules may differ from the rules of the institute program and schools with in-depth study of the Russian language.
For this reason, in some cases, syllables may not be distinguished in accordance with your knowledge of the rules for dividing words into syllables.
Syllable
A syllable is a single vowel or a combination of one vowel with one or more consonants. In other words: vowels form syllables, consonants only in conjunction with a vowel form a syllable. For memorization, a small cheat sheet can help: vowels - “say”, consonants - “agree”. For example: in the word dog there are three syllables so-ba-ka (vowels: o, a, a, consonants: s, b, k), in the word Asia - three syllables A-zi-ya (vowels: a, i, i, consonant: h).
Syllables consisting of two or more sounds can be open or closed. Open syllables end in a vowel: vo-da, tra-va, ro-di-na. Closed syllables end in a consonant: combine, cork, yellow.
Distinguish between covered syllables starting with a consonant and open syllables starting with a vowel. Examples: ko-ra (both syllables covered), ya-blo-ko (one uncovered, two covered).
How many syllables are there in a word?
Words are made up of syllables. Based on the definition of a syllable, the number of syllables in a word is determined by the number of vowels. School teachers of the Russian language often say: "How many vowels - so many syllables."
Example: sn e g - one syllable, h and t a t - two syllables, p a b o t a - three syllables, for and n o w eee - five syllables.
More examples of syllables:
- water - syllables in and yes ;
- read - syllables chi , ta , la ;
- i - syllable i ;
- spring - syllables ve , shni , e ;
- chair - syllable chair , the word has one syllable, consisting of one vowel and three consonants.
A syllable is the minimum part of a word when it is pronounced, except for degenerate cases where it is required to spell the word.
Hence the well-known expressions: read by syllables, pronounce by syllables. The syllable, like sound and stress, belongs to the section of phonetics.
In Russian there are words without syllables, that is, consisting only of consonants. A striking example of such words are onomatopoeic words. For example: hmm, t-s-s-s, tr-tr-tr.
Large
b ol - sh about This script allows you to divide words into syllables. Remember that the rules for separating words into syllables and the rules for hyphenation are different rules.
1. Russian has different sounds: vowels are more sonorous than consonants. It is vowels that form syllables, are syllable-forming. A syllable is one sound or several sounds pronounced with one expiratory push of air: vo-yes, na-y-ka.
There are as many syllables in a word as there are vowels.
Consonants are non-syllabic. When pronouncing a word, consonants "stretch" to vowels, forming a syllable together with vowels.
2. A syllable may consist of one sound (and then it is necessarily a vowel) or several sounds (in this case, in addition to the vowel, there is a consonant or a group of consonants in the syllable): rim - o-bo-doc; country - country; night light - night light; miniature - mi-ni-a-tu-ra. If a syllable consists of two or more sounds, then it must begin with a consonant.
3. Syllables can be open or closed.
An open syllable ends in a vowel: water, country.
A closed syllable ends in a consonant: sleep, liner.
There are more open syllables in Russian. Closed syllables are usually observed at the end of a word: no-chnik (the first syllable is open, the second is closed), o-bo-dok (the first two syllables are open, the third is closed).
In the middle of a word, a syllable, as a rule, ends in a vowel, and a consonant or a group of consonants after a vowel usually goes to the next syllable: no-chnik, announcer.
In the middle of a word, closed syllables can form only unpaired voiced consonants [th], [p], [p'], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n' ] (sonorous): may-ka, Sonya-ka, so-scrap-ka.
4. Sometimes two consonants can be written in a word, but one sound, for example: get rid of [izh:yt ']. Therefore, in this case, two syllables are distinguished: i-live . The division into parts from-live corresponds to the rules of word hyphenation, and not to division into syllables.
The same can be traced on the example of the verb to leave, in which the combination of consonants ЗЖ sounds like one sound [Ж:]; so the division into syllables will be - y-e-squeeze , and the division of the word to carry is leave-reap .
Errors are especially often observed when singling out syllables from verb forms ending in -tsya, -tsya.
The division curl-sya, presses-sya is a division into parts for transfer, and not a division into syllables, since in such forms the combination of letters ts, ts sounds like one sound [ts].
When dividing into syllables, the combinations of the letters ts, ts go entirely to the next syllable: vi-tsya, zhmo-tsya.
