Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Syllables govern the world.
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.