“Per-fect.” It’s the hiss of the year, the two-syllable word that has somehow become the default response of pretty much everyone working in hospitality. The first syllable is pronounced in a slow and ...

Dyslexia is not only a problem related to reading; dyslexic children also display impaired prosodic processing—in other words, they struggle to detect stressed syllables. A team of Spanish researchers ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Learn Words: Use Syllables Learn Words - Use Syllables is an exciting mix between a word and a trivia game. Words are split into colorful syllables and you ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

Hello, I’m Mr Firth and today we’re going to be focusing on words that have one or more syllables in them. But first, let’s remind ourselves what a syllable is. A syllable is a beat of sound in a word ...

The rules for determining syllable boundaries should be applied in the following order. From this order better generalizations can be made. The ordering goes from the more specific to the less ...

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With his sixth book "The Fish and the Not Fish," Peter Markus wanted write a book that was the first of its kind. So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book ...