Besides the simple letters there are also some two thousand syllabic signs and ideographs.
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.
On referring to the scale, it will be noticed that children quickly pass from syllabicreading to hesitating reading, but the passage from hesitating to fluent reading is slower and more troublesome.
On the confusion ofsyllabic quantity with vowel quantity in these words, see 133, 2.
This sound is said to have syllabic function or to be syllabic; in the examples given, a, n, l, and s are respectively syllabic.
When sounds other than vowels have, in rare cases, syllabic function, this fact is noted in phonetic works by a point, .
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, Tungchou, 1909.
The lack of fixed syllabic quantity is just what I emphasize.
As certain of these signs retained a syllabic character, the Persian cuneiform was never a pure alphabet, though far on the way to this as early as the period of the Achæmenian kings.
We can, however, readily perceive that any attempt to treat pure syllabic signs alphabetically would be impossible.
Others again, refer to the ethnology of primitive inhabitants of the country; all of these, however, taking the form of vocabularies only possible to interpret by recognizing their syllabic character.
This sign had anothersyllabic value, signifying a drop of water.
With the adoption of the Proto-Medic cuneiform by the Medes and Persians, many of the syllabic signs, instead of representing syllables came on the acrologic principle to be used as alphabetic characters.
When the Semites adopted the old Accadian syllabary they used these signs quite as often to express the Semitic sounds of the original ideographs as for syllabic signs.
Now in applying the syllabary of one language to the uses of another, it might be expected that the signs expressing a certain syllabic sound in one language would be used to express the syllabic sounds in the other.
On the contrary, the Semitic language was more copious, possessing a greater variety of syllabic utterances.
He is, indeed, a glorious champion of the octo-syllabic verse.
But what must have been the irresistible charm of his octo-syllabic measure, to have seduced the morbid methodist, Cowper, into a warm eulogy of the very metre in which his licentious freaks were perpetuated?
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.
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.
They began by having syllabicsigns for proper names.
What is far more important, the Accadians possessed a hieroglyphic writing similar in character to that of the Egyptians, and, after their junction with the Semite people, that developed into a syllabic alphabet.
It never advanced to the use of what may be called true letters, never beyond the use of syllabic signs.
With poly-syllabic circumflex futures constituting the third foot, there would be a violation of the current rules respecting the cæsura.
The Attacapa is one of the pauro-syllabic languages of America, by which I mean languages that, if not monosyllabic after the fashion of the languages of south-eastern Asia, have the appearance of being so.
Caucasus in general are so nearly mono-syllabic as to be with fitness designated pauro-syllabic; (2.
The word nika, which alone denotes daughter, makes the power of the syllabic ka doubtful.
Variously repeated and grouped, these marks make up the syllabic characters.
As each of the other twenty odd consonantal sounds may enter into similar combinations, it is obvious that there are several hundreds of fundamental syllables to be taken into account in any syllabic system of writing.
That may have had its effect; but I do not see the need of any cause from afar to account for the syllabic regularity of Latin accentual verse.
Its songful qualities lay in the sonorousness of the words and in their syllabic correspondence with the notes of the melody to which they were sung.
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.
Probably the most disputed point in all prosodic theory is the relative importance of time (duration, syllabic length) and stress (accent) in English verse.
Experiments have been made to obtain absolute | | measurements of syllabic quantity, and elaborate rules | | formulated for determining longs and shorts.
Conversely, when a noticeably long syllable occupies the place of a light syllable, in rapid tri-syllabic verse, we feel that the verse is injured.
In the second foot one can and should give the syllable dis- full syllabic time, instead of hurrying over it as in prose speech,--a rendering made easy by the fact that it frequently has a marked secondary accent.
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.
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.
Obviously there can be no fixed limits to the number of degrees of intensity recognized in syllabic accent or stress.
Est, like es, is generally a syllabic termination; but st, like s, is not.
Our grammarians of the last century seem to have been more willing to encumber the language with syllabic endings, than to simplify it by avoiding them.
Letters of the alphabet, when and how used in the sciences Alphabetic writing, its advantage over the syllabic Ambiguous, construc.
Does syllabic quantity always follow the quality of the vowels?
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?
Nor can the distinctsyllabic utterance of the termination ed be now generally practised, except in solemn prose.
In this, since syllabic length and shortness are relative to each other, and to the cause of each, he was, perhaps, hardly consistent.
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.
There is no evidence that the Aztecs ever reached the highest or alphabetic stage of hieroglyphics, and so far as is known they only used the syllabic method in writing names, and foreign words after the coming of the Spaniards.
It will be noticed that there are several varying characters for the same letter, and several syllabic signs.
Wace's Brut is chiefly in octo-syllabic verse, and extends to fifteen thousand lines.
The first part was written in Alexandrines, but for the second he adopted the easier measure of the octo-syllabic verse, of which this part contains seventeen thousand lines.
In their own language they used the syllabic characters, invented and perfected by the Reverend James Evans, the founder of this mission.
For this reason Shakspeare chose a syllabic measure which was very common before his time, but which was then going out of fashion, though it still continued to be frequently used, especially in translations of the classical poets.
In the syllabic measures of their tragedies, there generally prevails a highly finished regularity, but by no means a stiff symmetrical uniformity.
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.
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.
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.
