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A syllable is a basic unit of organization within a sequence of speech sounds, such as within a word, typically defined by linguists as a nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (margins, which are most often consonants). In phonology and studies of languages, syllables are often considered the "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language: its prosody or poetic metre. Properties such as stress, tone, and reduplication operate on syllables and their parts. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for exa

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A syllable is a basic unit of speech made up of a vowel sound (the core) with optional consonant sounds before or after it, and these units combine to form words. Syllables matter because they influence how languages sound and rhythm, and properties like stress and tone operate at the syllable level.

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