Syllable_onset Syllable_onset

Syllable onset - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Alveolar, Antistrophe, Antonym, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilation, Atom, Bilabial, Bit, Book, Burden, Canto, Cerebral, Check, Chorus, Consonant, Couplet, Crumb, Dental, Diphthong, Dissimilation, Distich

In phonetics and phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus. Depending on the phonotactics of a language, the onset can consist of one or more consonants.


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