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palavra trissílaba

trisyllabic word

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Rather, most bisyllabic words have initial stress, and trisyllabic and longer words usually have stress on the second syllable. en.wikipedia.org

When approaching a female during courtship, the male will let out a trisyllabic "cu-coo-cu" while bowing to his mate. en.wikipedia.org

The song consists of trisyllabic echeme, a first-order assemblage of syllables, each with a short opening hemisyllable followed by a longer closing hemisyllable. en.wikipedia.org

The dental is preceded by an "a" in some verbs, causing the past tenses to become trisyllabic. en.wikipedia.org

Tonal minimal pairs are attested for monosyllabic, bisyllabic, and trisyllabic words. en.wikipedia.org

While trisyllabic words do exist, they are all loanwords. en.wikipedia.org

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). en.wikipedia.org

For example, tense was and lax was at the time of trisyllabic laxing. en.wikipedia.org

When red foxes draw close together, they emit trisyllabic greeting warbles similar to the clucking of chickens. en.wikipedia.org

According to their phonological behaviour, these are disyllabic words and not trisyllabic. en.wikipedia.org

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