The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for English or Korean, we’d need many more letters to record the individual sounds of the language.

This paper addresses the problem of the syllabic consonants in the selected Slavic and Celtic languages. We shall consider this issue through the optic of Government Phonology (henceforth GP), as ...

A METAL detectorist says his wife is his lucky charm after finding a medieval gold ring worth £7,000 when she joined him for ...

Syllabic word setting is when a composer uses one note per syllable in order to make a word sound confident and clear. Melismatic word setting is when a composer uses more than one note per ...

To mark the occasion, students are performing "The Maiden Benten and the Bandits of the White Waves," a popular Kabuki ...

Italian restaurants are a dime a dozen in North Naples. Is this new one from The Ritz-Carlton worth your time and money? JLB ...

“The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness,” he noted. And when multi-syllabic, Latinate words of murky ...

To enter the Museum of the Bamoun Kings in western Cameroon, you have to pass under the fangs of a gigantic two-headed snake — the highlight of an imposing coat of arms of one of the oldest ...

when I was trying to coax more than mono-syllabic responses out of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, a thought occurred to me. It’s something that you also get a sense of in Kai’s documentary.

A true testament to human perseverance and holistic and tailored medical care, Suhail, an eight-year-old Emirati child with ...

The style of singing in a musical is very pop/rock and will include syllabic and melismatic word setting: To make a word sound confident and clear the music will have one note per syllable.

Also on display are items from the life of the most famous Bamoun King, Ibrahim Njoya, who reigned from 1889 to 1933 and created Bamoune Script, a writing system that contains over 500 syllabic signs.