monosyllabic in English

adjective
1
(of a word or utterance) consisting of one syllable.
As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.

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1. He grunted a monosyllabic reply.

2. He could be gruff and monosyllabic.

3. He grunted monosyllabic responses to questions.

4. Firstly, the evolution from monosyllabic words to disyllabic monomorphemic words in Chinese-Tibetan has proved that monosyllabic words are protogenic.

5. He made monosyllabic replies to my questions.

6. Ralph grew increasingly monosyllabic as the evening progressed.

7. Display forms of synonymic monosyllabic verbs in Xun Zi.

8. Intensive training is making many activists a trifle monosyllabic.

9. These monosyllabic roots are the building blocks of the language.

10. In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents.

11. He would give only monosyllabic replies, such as " Yes " and " No ".

12. The monosyllabic adjectives in of Songs abundant of lofty technique of expression.

13. Muriel inquired after their day and received polite but monosyllabic replies from each of them.

14. He made monosyllabic replies and then repeated his request for a small bowl of harees.

15. The second chapter includes a list of homophones and a glossary of free ( unbound ) monosyllabic words.

16. He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies , and when it was asked , terse advice.

17. Bathoses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable; Words that rhyme with Bathoses

18. Baaings is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable; Words that rhyme with Baaings

19. Monosyllabic words in want of form, very important language best fit the existence of transformation.

20. Antonyms for Blathering include reticent, taciturn, reserved, uncommunicative, tight-lipped, closemouthed, laconic, quiet, silent and monosyllabic

21. Campbell & Kaufman (1985) Most Proto-Mayan roots were monosyllabic except for a few disyllabic nominal roots.

22. Notes: Mussurana dream-footed monosyllabic Anaerobian nonamenably Chatti half-note neutered notch-lobed unantagonised spoon-billed

23. This word tone system consists of four tonemes, two of which have disyllabic and monosyllabic Allotones

24. 21 The Chinese language vocabulary transfers the monosyllabic words first to the disyllabic and polysyllabic words first.

25. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Envelope curve and sound length as well as frequency domain of each monosyllabic word phoneme.

26. It is the major tendency for the development of Chinese words that a monosyllabic word becomes disyllabic and polysyllabic.

27. In this phonological-priming study, Chinese-speaking participants made lexical decision to disyllabic visual targets after hearing monosyllabic or disyllabic prime words.

28. 16 It is the major tendency for the development of Chinese words that a monosyllabic word becomes disyllabic and polysyllabic.

29. The assumption that each character represents an independent meaningful syllable leads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.

30. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors affecting Chinese speech tone recognition and analyze the Mandarin monosyllabic word phoneme from time and frequency domains.

31. Chinese vocabulary mainly from a monosyllabic word, the transition to sound words mainly in Chinese history is a great development and changes.

32. It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.; Bsmused is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable; Words that rhyme with Bsmused

33. In the "Wei Zhao's Annotation of Guoyu", there are a plenty of disyllabic and polysyllabic words used to explain the monosyllabic words in Guoyu.

34. 18 In the "Wei Zhao's Annotation of Guoyu", there are a plenty of disyllabic and polysyllabic words used to explain the monosyllabic words in Guoyu.

35. ‘One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with Asyndeton, within a line.’ ‘He is an innovator and experimenter; he is fond of antithesis, poetic vocabulary, the use of participles, and occasionally extreme Asyndeton.’

36. ‘The loud Cackle of the roosting birds on the trees disturbed her thought.’ ‘Close by lies a lochan, known locally as the duck pond, a place usually ringing with the Cackles of mallards.’ ‘The vocalizations of falconids are simple, repeated monosyllabic calls, described variously as Cackles, chatters, squawks, croaks, wails and whines.’