ambisyllabicity

English

Etymology

From ambi- +‎ syllabicity.

Noun

ambisyllabicity (uncountable)

  1. (poetry, phonetics) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".

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