heterosyllabic
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heterosyllabic (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Not occurring in the same syllable.
- Antonym: tautosyllabic
- Coordinate term: ambisyllabic
- 2005, Luciano Canepari, A Handbook of Pronunciation, Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 137:
- In fact, it is a question of two –heterosyllabic– consonants, whereby the neutral Italian structure could not tolerate more complicated sequences, as they would make these syllables too heavy to pronounce.
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not occurring in the same syllable
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tautosyllabic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
