Initial Syllable

Some articles on initial syllable, syllable, initial syllables:

Finnish Language - Morphophonology
... It is meaning-distinguishing in the initial syllable, and suffixes follow so, if the listener hears in any part of the word, they can derive for the initial syllable ... the final vowel becomes the back vowel 'a' (rather than the front vowel 'ä') because the initial syllable contains the back vowels 'uo' ...
French Phonology - Stress - Emphatic Stress
... In French, this stress falls on the first consonant-initial syllable of the word in question ... a vowel, emphatic stress falls either on the first non-initial syllable that begins with a consonant, or on the initial syllable with the insertion of a glottal stop or a liaison ... It's terrible.' Emphatic stress on second syllable of épouvantable) C'est épouvantable (initial syllable with liaison consonant ) C'est épouvantable (initial syllable with glottal stop ...
Languages With Vowel Harmony - Uralic Languages - Finnish
... From vowel harmony it follows that the initial syllable of each single (non-compound) word controls the frontness or backness of the entire word ... In the initial syllable a back vowel causes all non-initial syllables to be realized with back (or neutral) vowels, e.g ... pos+ahta+(t)a → posahtaa a front vowel causes all non-initial syllables to be realized with front (or neutral) vowels, e.g ...

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