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Tonal minimal pairs are attested for monosyllabic, bisyllabic, and trisyllabic words.
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While trisyllabic words do exist, they are all loanwords.
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The dental is preceded by an "a" in some verbs, causing the past tenses to become trisyllabic.
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According to their phonological behaviour, these are disyllabic words and not trisyllabic.
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The giant snipe has a "kek-kek" call when flushed, and a rasping trisyllabic call is given in its nocturnal display flight.
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The conclusion is drawn that di- and trisyllabic words with a short first syllable are stressed on the second syllable.
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In some cases, later changes have led to apparently anomalous results, e.g. south vs. southern with only two syllables (but at the time that trisyllabic laxing applied).
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For example, tense was and lax was at the time of trisyllabic laxing.
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The song consists of trisyllabic echeme, a first-order assemblage of syllables, each with a short opening hemisyllable followed by a longer closing hemisyllable.
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Words are generally monosyllabic or bisyllabic, less commonly trisyllabic.
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