| 单词 | syllabic |
| 例句 | He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z About two dozen of his Cherokee syllabic signs were taken directly from those letters, though of course with completely changed meanings, since Sequoyah did not know the English meanings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Syllabic” Linear B had many logograms, and “logographic” Egyptian hieroglyphs included many syllabic signs as well as a virtual alphabet of individual letters for each consonant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And Vänskä's insistence on precise enunciation in the finale of the Beethoven led to syllabic, declamatory singing from the BBC Symphony Chorus. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z The vocal line does some angular leaping about and swoopy Sprechstimme, but mostly delivers the words direct and syllabic. Hebrides Ensemble/McFadden ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:33Z The soprano must deliver the words in syllabic utterances, often on high sustained notes that hover above the staff, making it almost impossible for the text to be clear. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Her writing is diaristic in the sense that it doesn’t always hew to a clean syllabic structure — sometimes she’s cramming words to make them fit, and sometimes she’s lingering over them as if humbled. PinkPantheress’s Slivers of Dance-Pop Play With Memory Like a Toy 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The argument there was structural — both choruses have a similar pace and syllabic emphasis. What’s Wrong With the ‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Ruling 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z There were also passages of syllabic nonsense in which the singers became instrumentalists creating complex rhythmic structures. Music Review: Oscar Bianchi’s ‘Matra’ Debuts at the MATA Festival 2014-04-20T20:25:50Z Although the line is syllabic, the rhymes create a contrastingly accentual effect. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z He is adept at metrical, syllabic and free verse, and borrows unusual stanzaic forms from Wyatt, Shelley and Robert Bridges, among others. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z The syllabic form enacts this dissolution or slippage, as the words seep gently from line to line, without the hardness of end stops. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z Unable to pronounce multi – syllabic middle eastern names, especially the name of a dignitary’s wife, he grumbled, “Oh, Jesus. Let’s just call her Connie.” WATCH: “Uh, oh, it’s Moana”, says Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, explaining new immigration policy 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z On those songs, too, he rapped slowly but deliberately, obscuring syllabic tricks underneath a narcotic haze. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As early as 1300 BCE, building on the work of earlier Canaanites, the Phoenicians developed a syllabic alphabet that formed the basis of Greek and Roman writing much later. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It used a combination of alphabetic signs, syllabic signs, word signs, and pictures of objects. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Two students debated the syllabic rhythm in the last two lines of “Paradise Lost.” Opinion | My College Students Are Not OK 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The Americas, in turn, received the wheel, the horse, sugar, wheat, livestock, a syllabic script and, of course, rice. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Trump’s behavior is hardly new, and his words, though often a syllabic tangle of wandering logic, haven’t suddenly become offensive. Opinion | Social media companies should not act as censors 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The Phoenician mastery of sailing and the use of the syllabic alphabet were both boons to trade. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked to tell of her initial resistance to the nonsense syllabic refrain “ba-dee-yah” that White repeated at various points while they were working up the number. Allee Willis, Hall of Fame songwriter and beloved L.A. eclectic, dead at 72 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The inscription on the shard was in a Greek syllabic script that was the official writing system of six of Cyprus’ seven ancient city states from the 8th century B.C. Shard reveals how Cyprus’ ancient kingdoms managed economy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z What the modern battle cry lacks in archaic charm, it makes up for in full-body syllabic punch.” What’s it all about, Mr. Schultz? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Because they are so much more visually complex than alphabetic or syllabic systems, logographic systems might indeed follow different rules, she said. Why written languages look alike the world over 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Created by Los Angeles musician and performance artist Anna Homler, Breadwoman sang in her own language, a mix of syllabic utterances that sounded like some ancient tongue. Who is Breadwoman? Experimental musician Anna Homler will resurrect her curious creation on Thursday 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In Nunavut and Nunavik many older Inuit remain attached to syllabic symbols, believing them to be uniquely Inuit. Easier said than written 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It means, literally, “translator, traitor,” but even though that is semantically on target, it doesn’t match the syllabic harmoniousness of the original, and thus proves the impossibility it asserts. Is Translation an Art or a Math Problem? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It meant Golden State officially clinched a playoff spot and led to repeated syllabic "Warr-iors" chants. Lakers battle but can't top Warriors in 108-105 loss 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Three-fourths of the syllabic elements of the language begin with these clicks, and combined with them are several hard and deep gutturals and nasal accompaniments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The examination of the copies of the inscriptions already in our possession will probably determine whether the language is hieroglyphic, syllabic, or alphabetic. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z He estimated the number of characters at eighty-two or eighty-seven, and judged the writing to be partly alphabetic and partly syllabic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Then the next words spoken were said by both at precisely the same time, syllabic by syllable as if we had been wound up to it. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Its systems of writing, both the earlier and the later one, are syllabic in character, and analogous to those in vogue in Asia Minor and Cyprus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The Egyptians began at an early age to use syllabic signs for proper names. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z If 70 to 90, it will be syllabic; but if only 20 to 50, it may be safely concluded that it is alphabetic. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z The difficulty of reading this script is enormously increased by the fact that many signs are polyphonous, i.e. they may have more than one syllabic value and also be used as an ideogram. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z True, there were syllabic emissions of sound which might be resolved into words by toning down grunts and inharmonious belchings of thoughts rather than their legitimate utterances. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z On referring to the scale, it will be noticed that children quickly pass from syllabic reading to hesitating reading, but the passage from hesitating to fluent reading is slower and more troublesome. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z It may be made up of iconographs, ideographs, syllabic signs, and alphabetic phonetics; or the name may consist of a combination of all these. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The phonogram has now become the symbol of a monosyllable, which is normally made up of two elements, a consonant and a vowel, as in the Devanágari, and other syllabic systems. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Its metre seems to be a degenerate survival of the Old English alliterative line, gradually modified in the course of the work by assimilation to the regular syllabic measure of the French original. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z They have invented an alphabet, the letters of which combine to form syllables, and these syllabic compounds are then used like the Japanese characters to express their own words. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z The scale does not contain such a combination, which ought to figure between the syllabic reading of the infant class and the hesitating reading of the elementary class, first year. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Each phonetic at first probably stood for a syllable, in which case it might be called a syllabic sign. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z As the title indicates, it is prescriptive in tone, and it is strictly syllabic in what it prescribes. The Art of English Poetry (1708) 2011-01-29T03:00:20.010Z The infinitive also ends in en, often e, always syllabic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Correct intonation was of far greater importance than syllabic pronunciation. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z Many critics have noted the change from the strictly syllabic scansion of Pope's school to metres like those of Tennyson's Maud, and a hundred later poems, in which syllabic measurement is wholly discarded. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Most phonetics remained as syllabic signs, but many of them in course of time lost part of the sound embodied in the syllable, and stood for a letter sound only. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z This is highly important because it shows that although the nomina basis of his prosody is both accentual and syllabic, the latter element is really its defining principle. The Art of English Poetry (1708) 2011-01-29T03:00:20.010Z The Latin hymns differ from classical poetry in that accent and rhyme prevail instead of syllabic quantity. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes He released it from the excessive bondage that it had hitherto endured; as Robert Bridges has said, “Shakespeare, whose early verse may be described as syllabic, gradually came to write a verse dependent on stress.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Coleridge, it is true, and Scott had employed a broken rhythm, substituting the temporal for the syllabic ictus, to vary the monotony of the eight-syllabled narrative verse. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Phonetics which represent letters only and not syllables may be called alphabetic signs, in contradistinction to syllabic signs. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The opinion of this eminent critic has lately been controverted by Dr. Nott, who maintains the versification of Chaucer to have been wholly founded on accentual and not syllabic regularity. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 It always seems to me that the Russians pronounce their words with more syllabic distinctness than either the French or Germans. Russian Life To-day The syllabic division, however, is governed by rule, is precise, uniform, fixed, and consistent, and may therefore be acted on with some degree of certainty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 It is impossible to call him a poet; he wrote what was called syllabic verse: the number of syllables taking the place of rhythm. An Outline of Russian Literature Every syllabic sign possesses an inherent vowel sound, or an inherent consonant sound, or both. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z A characteristic feature of this language is described in explaining syllabic reduplication, which performs iterative and distributive functions. First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 Assisted Evans in his invention of the Cree syllabic characters. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History This was in harmony with the disappearance of distinctions of syllabic quantity from popular speech. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Over the doors of some of the shops there are signboards written in Cree, that is to say in syllabic symbols which look like the footprints of a huge bird. Seeds of Pine Deficiency of accent is the most common of all the variations, if we understand by "accent" such syllabic stress as would be ordinarily appreciable in the reading of the word in question. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is syllabic agglutinative, that is, the word inflections are made up by adding syllables to the root word that is never lost. Heathen Master Filcsik Later obtained more effective materials, and set up catechisms, hymn-books, and portions of the Bible in syllabic. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History Literatures had previously flourished through the use of hieroglyphic and syllabic symbols; and the Babylonian syllabics continued in vogue throughout western Asia for a long time after the Phoenician alphabet had demonstrated its intrinsic superiority. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Halting just short of this analysis, the Assyrian ascribed syllabic values to the characters of his script, and hence, instead of finding twenty odd characters sufficient, he required about five hundred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Obviously there can be no fixed limits to the number of degrees of intensity recognized in syllabic accent or stress. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Hence, both the Vey and the Cherokee, the two latest coinages in the way of alphabets, are both syllabic. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies The syllabic environment will usually compel the student to give these letters their proper values. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The Romans, however, always practiced syllabic division very much as we do to-day. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 In writing the definite article, Miss Trafford mistakenly uses the contracted form th' when full syllabic value is to be given. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Writers who have agreed that English words have no fixed quantities, are still at variance as to the relation of the element of syllabic time to the element of accent in English verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The late successful attempt of the Cherokis to obtain a syllabic alphabet for their language, proves that the Americans were not devoid of graphic ingenuity. The Ancient Monuments of North and South America, 2nd ed. There is frequent yawning, and the speech is slow, syllabic, and jerky. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. All the other Egyptian phonetic signs have syllabic values, which are resolvable into combinations of the letters of the alphabet. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The Japanese cleverly adapted the Chinese ideographs to syllabic purposes, but they never devised a script of their own. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He even went so far as to disregard upon occasion the syllabic rule, and to add extraneous syllables, if thereby he might perfect his statement. Japanese Prints We cannot imagine any one seriously defending, after this majestical work, the old syllabic notion of scansion.... A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Rhythm is the syllabic and quantitative measure of the words, in which Robin, both in weight and time, balances Bobbin; and Dailie holds level scale with Ailie. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing This was done by individuals who could not speak English, and who had never learned any alphabet, except this syllabic one, which Guess had invented, taught to others, and introduced into practice. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians The whole fragment of forty-one lines, though not much earlier than the Ordinalia, is much less regular in rhythm, and is much less syllabic. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature It was a most singular conversation—syllabic and disjointed—he affecting great repugnance, she great brevity. Jack 1877 The sharp, syllabic emphasis, which he was accustomed to adopt in addressing large assemblages in the open air, grated harshly on ears accustomed to the smooth and carefully modulated elocution of Mr. Yancey. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The rate of syllabic utterance is usually a personal characteristic. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The Chinese have no alphabet, but about 20,000 syllabic characters. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois But in this play one begins to find signs of a tendency to a less accurate ear for exact syllabic rhythm. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature These Mr Evans had had printed at the village in Indian letters, which he had invented and called “syllabic characters.” Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians The verse is still alliterative, still destitute of any fixed number of syllables or syllabic equivalents. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Very frequently the metrical accent does not coincide with the syllabic accent: the musical accent will fall on an unaccented syllable, or vice versa. Style in Singing Meanwhile Tennyson and Kingsley, followed later by William Watson, and still enthusiastically by the present Poet Laureate, undertook to harmonize syllabic length and stress by more or less occult processes. The Principles of English Versification Rhythm is the syllabic and quantitative measure of the words, in which Robin both in weight and time, balances Bobbin; and Dailie holds level scale with Ailie. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Mr Evans printed his first copies of it in syllabic characters on birch bark. Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians This latter peculiarity was not to take hold in the language; but the quantified or mainly syllabic arrangement was. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Another cause of changes being necessary in the vocal part of many of the older classic writers, particularly of oratorio, is the frequently faulty syllabic accentuation. Style in Singing Quantity in such a context suggests syllabic length; and one recalls the sonnet to Lawes— not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. The Principles of English Versification In their own language they used the syllabic characters, invented and perfected by the Reverend James Evans, the founder of this mission. Winter Adventures of Three Boys He first read from his Indian Testament, translated into his own language and printed in the clear, beautiful syllabic characters invented by one of the early missionaries. Three Boys in the Wild North Land They allow themselves the syllabic licence of alliterative verse proper, though there is even less alliteration than in Havelok, and they vary from five to eight syllables, though five and six are the commonest. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Here Mr Evans invented the syllabic characters, by which an intelligent Indian can learn to read the Word of God in ten days or two weeks. By Canoe and Dog-Train The Wave of the Semitone is generally employed when time, or syllabic quantity, is needed as an element in the expression of the language of complaint or pathos. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 The whole Bible, with some hundreds of hymns and a few volumes of good books, “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “The Path of Life,” and others, have been translated and printed in these syllabic characters. Winter Adventures of Three Boys This was the first opportunity the boys had had of seeing the methods by which Mr Evans’s syllabic characters were taught to the Indians. Three Boys in the Wild North Land In his handling of the French octosyllable he at once displays that impatience of the rigidly syllabic system of prosody which Teutonic poetry of the best kind always shows sooner or later. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Other missionary organisations at work in the country quickly saw the advantage of using these syllabic characters, and were not slow to avail themselves of them. By Canoe and Dog-Train In time the rate of utterance will vary with the syllabic quantities, these being short and crisp in the language of vivacious conversation, but extended, and with distinct, attenuated vanishes, in grave and important monologue. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 In a previous work205-1 I have expressed the opinion that the characters are to a certain extent phonetic—are not true alphabetic signs, but syllabic. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. The peculiarity about it, as the name “syllabic” implies, is that each character is a syllable, and so there is really no spelling in the language. Three Boys in the Wild North Land That a danger was at hand, the danger of too great restriction in the syllabic direction, has been admitted. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) They were well furnished with Testaments and hymn-books, printed in the beautiful syllabic characters; and they used them well. By Canoe and Dog-Train The priest had given potatoes; the clergyman had supplied a copy of the Bible in syllabic characters; and the minister had given the silver-plated wedding ring. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure There are nearly two hundred syllabic signs, much alike and easy to confuse. History Of Ancient Civilization He fills the air with vocal bullets and syllabic shrapnel. Talks on Talking More likely it is that the almost inexhaustible abundance of rhymes in the Provençal, and the ease of construction of merely syllabic verse, explain in great measure his fertility in the production of stanzas. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar The above characters to the left are syllabic—a method of writing taught to the Indians by the missionaries. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure The verse-structure is very intricate and is mostly in strophic form composed of verses of fixed syllabic length, rhymed and richly furnished with alliteration. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge She was positive she had heard it before—that crisp, unslurred enunciation, with its keen perception of syllabic values, so unlike the average Englishman's slovenly rendering of his mother-tongue. The Splendid Folly With regard to the letters proper, there is nothing particular to remark, except that they have almost always a syllabic force. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Now, since all adjectives end in syllabic -a, it is much harder to keep them uninflected than if they ended with a consonant like the Eng. "good." International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar A tiny bell gives warning of this fact, and the operator finishes the word or syllabic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Thus came alphabetical writing, syllabic writing, verbal writing, into the world. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World And this grunt, more than could possibly be conveyed by syllabic utterance, expresses impatience. The Colossus A Novel That means that old Latin was spoken like English is, with syllabic accent. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 At the age of four he had begun to read and write, refusing to be taught in the orthodox way—this is so accurately characteristic—by syllabic spelling and copy-book pothooks. The Life of John Ruskin Owing to the fundamental difference between the syllabic structures of the two languages, we are enabled to put into English lines of eight syllables the whole meaning of Dante’s lines of eleven. Essays Æsthetical Here two devoted women have spent years of their lives printing in Cree on a hand-press syllabic hymns and portions of the Gospel for the enlightenment of the Indians. The New North Neither stress nor syllabic weight is a very keen psychologic factor in the dynamics of French. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech But when I read Chaucer I am forced to the conclusion that what he tried to do was precisely that: to imitate French music; to write English without regard to syllabic accent. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It is certain, however, that he made no use of the sign-language, though there is some evidence that he invented and practised a system of syllabic dactylology. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 But the sounds of the language are much fewer than ours; for the characters represent, not simple tones and articulations, but syllabic sounds, and this number is said to be sufficient to denote them all. The Grammar of English Grammars The inscriptions in syllabic Chipewyan show the patient devotion of Father Beihler, who comes across us as we gaze at the graves. The New North Quantitative or accentual metrics would be as artificial in French as stress metrics in classical Greek or quantitative or purely syllabic metrics in English. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Mr. Stewart in his work has adapted the Cree syllabic characters to the Eskimo, and he is teaching the Ungava people to write by this method, which is largely phonetic. The Long Labrador Trail Gentlelemons," he says, with painful syllabic distinctness, "can I believe my ears? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 But the different syllabic sounds in our language amount to some thousands. The Grammar of English Grammars They went to the brook and lunched and made easy records of syllabic calls that could be rendered in words and by whistling. Michael O'Halloran Yet accentual and syllabic types of verse, rather than quantitative verse, seem to be the prevailing norms. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It is syllabic, of eighty-five characters, and is used for printing. Aboriginal American Authors The lack of fixed _syllabic _quantity is just what I emphasize. A Study of Poetry Nay, even in the regular and established change, as of loved to lovedst, is there not a syllabic increase, which is unpleasant to the ear, and unsuited to familiar speech? The Grammar of English Grammars The melody of the Saxon verse was regulated by syllabic accent or emphasis, and not by quantity, like the classical metres. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The first half of each line ends in an unaccented syllabic—or, strictly speaking, in a syllable bearing a secondary accent; that is, each line has what is called a "ringing" caesura. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original The Latin comic poets, on the other hand, are negligent in their versification; they trouble themselves very little about syllabic quantity, and the very idea of it is almost lost amidst their many metrical licences. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Old, prophetic, syllabic sounds, lisped in the place whence I had come, were given unto me, and I answered,— "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 Est, like es, is generally a syllabic termination; but st, like s, is not. The Grammar of English Grammars First, it is not a true alphabet, but a syllabic; not letters, but syllables, are indicated by each character; 73 characters are all that are needed to express the whole language. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Women have an art of expressing contempt by syllabic emphasis that men never acquire. Observations of a Retired Veteran This verse, in variety and metrical signification, is greatly inferior to the English and German rhymeless iambic, from its uniform feminine termination, and from there being merely an accentuation in Italian, without any syllabic measure. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Rhyme was unknown to the Greeks, the music of whose verse came from syllabic quantity. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music He had a habit of speaking in a measured syllabic manner, if he wished to express dislike or contempt, which was certainly very effective. The Life of George Borrow No letters can represent the nasal intonation of this syllabic inquiry, and no words the supreme indifference of the boy's tone. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Arrant nonsense comes from their lips with such sweet syllabic flow, such little ripples of pronunciation and musical interludes, that you are attracted and held without the smallest regard to what they are saying. Gala-days In the syllabic measures of their tragedies, there generally prevails a highly finished regularity, but by no means a stiff symmetrical uniformity. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Variously repeated and grouped, these marks make up the syllabic characters. A History of Science — Volume 1 The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur. Jane Eyre In the French, as well as in the Greek, it happens that the same syllabic measure is used in Tragedy and Comedy, which, on a first view, may appear singular. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature |
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