Nonverbis
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- Jun 4, 2021
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bio?q=bio
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/bio
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/bio
/baɪəʊ/
Could you tell me how many syllables are there in this case?
Please, pay attention to the fact that the stress has not been signified in any of these dictionaries.
So, what we have here:
1. The absense of a stress implies one syllable. Or we will have to trust in a theory of a plot not to put a stress here. The publishers of these dictionaries are independent. Or they just copy-pasted this pronunciation, which I hope not the case.
2. We remember that in English there can be only one vowel in a syllable.
Therefore there is one syllable here.
But in this cae it is longer than a triphthong. It looks like a tetraphtong, which is unknown to linguistics.
Could you comment on this?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/bio
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/bio
/baɪəʊ/
Could you tell me how many syllables are there in this case?
Please, pay attention to the fact that the stress has not been signified in any of these dictionaries.
So, what we have here:
1. The absense of a stress implies one syllable. Or we will have to trust in a theory of a plot not to put a stress here. The publishers of these dictionaries are independent. Or they just copy-pasted this pronunciation, which I hope not the case.
2. We remember that in English there can be only one vowel in a syllable.
Therefore there is one syllable here.
But in this cae it is longer than a triphthong. It looks like a tetraphtong, which is unknown to linguistics.
Could you comment on this?