Most commonly, the line is divided into two equal parts by a caesura between the sixth and seventh syllables.

Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains ( four-line stanzas ) of alternating lines of iambic ( an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable ) tetrameter ( eight syllables ) and iambic trimeter ( six syllables ), known as ballad meter.

Most commonly epenthesis is in the nature of a " transitional " consonant, but vowels may be epenthetic: non-standard English film in two syllables, athlete in three.

Most long words involve reduplication, which is quite productive in Polynesian: ioio ' grooves ', eaea ' breath ', uaua ' tough ' ( all four syllables ), auēuē ' crying ' ( five syllables, from uē ( uwē ) ' to weep '), uoa or uouoa ' false mullet ' ( sp.

Most North American English accents differ from Received Pronunciation and some other British dialects by being rhotic ; the phoneme / r / is pronounced before consonants and at the end of syllables, and the " r-colored vowel " is used as a syllable nucleus.

Most of the forms depend on number of syllables per line, as well as assonance, consonance, and alliteration.

Most of these languages passed through an earlier stage with three tones on most syllables ( but no tonal distinctions on checked syllables ending in a stop consonant ), which was followed by a tone split where the distinction between voiced and voiceless consonants disappeared but in compensation the number of tones doubled.

Most languages, such as Finnish and Spanish, do not have unstressed vowel reduction ; in these languages vowels in unstressed syllables have nearly the same quality as those in stressed syllables.

Most linguists believe that no language uses syllables containing four or more moras.

Most dialects, including the standard, use moras ( in Japanese, haku ( 拍 ) or mōra ( モーラ )) rather than syllables as the basis of the sound system.

Most of the Lepcha words are monosyllabic ; but, of course, there are words of more than one or two syllables.

Most of the couplets consist of two ten-syllable verses, although some have 11, 12, or 13 syllables.

Most represent CV syllables, though there are a few disyllabic signs.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

Most people do not realize that the congregation, as a gathered fellowship meeting regularly face to face, personally sharing in a common experience and expressing that experience in daily relationships with one another, is unique.

Most realtors and real estate brokers talk of themselves as `` professional people '' with the cultural and moral values held by the traditional professions.

Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

Most types of karmas, with good or bad results, will keep one in the wheel of samsāra ; others will liberate one to nirvāna.

Most amphibians, however, are able to exchange gases with the water or air via their skin.

Most commonly, tones are indicated with diacritics, the way vowels are treated in abugidas.

Most amateurs work at visible wavelengths, but a small minority experiment with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.

Most americium is produced by bombarding uranium or plutonium with neutrons in nuclear reactors – one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 100 grams of americium.

Most known properties – such as anion formation – are in line with other halogens.

Most acid soils are saturated with aluminium rather than hydrogen ions.

Most Apiaceae are annual, biennial or perennial herbs ( frequently with the leaves aggregated toward the base ), though a minority are shrubs or trees.

Most often, she is lovingly affectionate or teasing with her prejudices.

Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

Most Arminians reconcile human free will with God's sovereignty and foreknowledge by holding three points:

Most fundamentally, there are two types of plant resin with the potential for fossilization.

Most American Chinese establishments cater to non-Chinese customers with menus written in English or containing pictures.

Most models come equipped with Kickstart on an embedded ROM-chip.

Most are around 40-50 μm in diameter, with axopods up to 100 μm in length, though this varies.

Most acute aphasia patients can recover some or most skills by working with a Speech-Language Pathologist.

Most people did not consider the depiction of a Brillo Box or a store-bought urinal to be art until Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp ( respectively ) placed them in the context of art ( i. e., the art gallery ), which then provided the association of these objects with the associations that define art.

Most commonly, yod י indicates i or e, while waw ו indicates o or u. Aleph א was not systematically developed as a mater lectionis in Hebrew ( as it was in Aramaic and Arabic ), but it is occasionally used to indicate an a vowel.

Most Indo-Europeanists accept at least some version of laryngeal theory because their existence simplifies some otherwise hard-to-explain sound changes and patterns of alternation that appear in the Indo-European languages, and solves some minor mysteries, such as why verb roots containing only a consonant and a vowel have only long vowels e. g. * dō-" give "; re-reconstructing * deh < sub > 3 </ sub >- instead not only accounts for the patterns of alternation more economically than before, but brings the segmental structure of these roots into line with the basic IE pattern, consonant-vowel-consonant.

Most common is the reduction of a vowel sound to a schwa when it becomes unstressed.

Most Pravic words in the book are proper names ( said to be generated randomly by a computer ), and they are two-syllable words with five or six phonemes ( of the form CVCVC, where C = consonant, V = vowel ), if one counts the groups sh, gv and kv as single consonants, which they probably are.

Most, if not all, languages have some form of an unrounded open vowel.

Most languages have some form of an unrounded open vowel.

Most consonant letters, such as,, or, includes an inherent vowel which does not need to be written.

However, Mayan phonotactics is slightly more complicated than this: Most Mayan words end in a consonant, not a vowel, and there may be sequences of two consonants within a word as well, as in xolte ’ ' scepter ', which is CVCCVC.

Most dialects of modern English have two high back vowels: the close back rounded vowel found in words like goose, and the near-close near-back rounded vowel found in words like foot.

* Most Zyrian dialects of Komi vocalize syllable-final / l / in various ways: this may result in,, or vowel length.

Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austro-Asiatic consonants, with the distinction often shifting to the following vowel.