Sentence examples for minimum of one syllable from inspiring English sources

However, a Chinese word consisting of a minimum of one syllable is regarded as the smallest unit that is meaningful.

Using skylarks (Alauda arvensis) as a birdsong model with a very complex song structure, we detected another performance trade-off: minimum gap duration between syllables was longer when the frequency ratio between the end of one syllable and the start of the next syllable (inter-syllable frequency shift) was large.

Chapter 1 has words of one syllable.

Those are all words of one syllable.

Its incredible but accurate title: "The Pilgrim's Progress — in Words of One Syllable".

It was a typical line from a president who likes words of one syllable.

One syllabus text promised "Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears," while supplementary reading unpacked his work "in Words of One Syllable".

Too patrician, too gentrified.... There's a very simple remedy: the excision of one syllable and one consonant.

As such, the show "ultimately ruled against Nick's response of 'Gangster's Paradise Lost'" because of one syllable.

These authors suggested that the production of syllables in which the end of one syllable is produced at a different frequency than the start of the subsequent syllable might be more likely to be subject to performance constraints than syllables in which the inter-syllable frequency shift is small.

Vocal gap deviation is based on the assumption that the gap duration between two successive syllables is traded off against the inter-syllable frequency shift (assessed as ratio of frequency from the end of one syllable to the start of the next syllable, Figure  1C).