These patterns will help us know how to read these words. Knowing about syllables will help us find these patterns. So when we're looking at a word, we're going to be able to divide the syllables.

We diagram words to look for letter and syllable patterns, label long and short vowel sounds, and individual letter sounds. / Julia Knarr, The Soulard School.

A typologically unusual alternative is proposed: contrary to the pattern normally found (Maddieson 1985), vowels had longer duration in closed syllables than in open syllables, as in Turkish and ...