English Explanatory Dictionary

ambisyllabicity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".

Word forms

ambisyllabicity

Etymology

From ambi- + syllabicity.

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