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A syllable is any of the units into which a word may be divided. It usually consists of a vowel sound. This vowel sound can be alone as in “A”, or can be preceded by a consonant sound as in “To”, or can be followed by a consonant sound as in ...See more
“Eat”, or it can be between two consonant sounds or more as in “Take”, “Shock”, “Sleep”, etc So, a syllable equals (=) a vowel sound (=) one vowel sound or a diphthong. For example, in the word “Sleep” we have one vowel sound /i:/, but in /.the word “Take” we’ve got the diphthong (two vowel sounds) /e The weakest vowel sound in the English language is /ə/, and this sound is never stressed. It is called Schwa.
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