Sentences with phrase «syllable like»

Do you really trust a phone rep that wants to pronounce the second syllable like «sword»?

A name that starts with a harder syllable like this will help your pup recognize it instantly.

It's pronounced (D - eow) with a'd» and the last syllable like meow.

Babbling is becoming more involved including vowel sounds now in combination with syllables like «Da - da,» or «ba - ba - ba.»

Syllables like lbog, for instance, might be rare due to sheer historical forces, or because they are just harder to hear and articulate.

Dogs hear hard syllables like K's and T's because they have a sharper quality than gentler vowel sounds.

Not exact matches

If theologians like Gordon Kaufman and Stanley Hauerwas are plainspoken Americans, reared on Strunk and White, then Coakley is the George Eliot of theologians, whose theology always comes in the most syllables possible.

Normally, I wouldn't choose the book of Revelation as 2:00 a.m. reading material, but all night long I'd been chasing the broken pieces of a prophecy around my head — something about tribes and tongues and nations, verses I knew but couldn't quite remember, like a poem with missing syllables or a song with forgotten words.

For example, ventilateur seems like an awful lot of syllables to spit out, when in English the one syllable «fan» will suffice.

There is no higher authority on a certain team, that is playing in a certain big shouldered city, that is second to none, and it just so happens to start with «Ch», and ends in a «go», and those syllables sandwich an «ica», much like my Turano bread sandwiches around a classic heaping helping of Italian Beef.

No one has ever pronounced «perilous» like «pair - RAH - luss» before, I don't think, and Fergie throws everything she has behind that second syllable to knock us all on our asses with a minute - and - a-half still to go in the song.

Your baby may also like repeating one syllable, such as «ba», «ma», «ga», or other consonant - vowel combinations, over and over.

From babbling strings of consonants like «babababa,» they will begin to produce recognizable syllables, such as «ga,» «ba,» and «da.»

Around the eighth month, he will start to combine his syllables, to make words like «dada» and «baba.»

Just like her siblings, Chicago was not graced with a middle name, although she did rate a second and even a third syllable to her name.

There are many popular names with syllables «i - ca», like Monica or Jessica.

This name reminds me of a fairy; it has a very nymph - like quality, due in part to the sweetness of the syllables.

This name pairs wonderfully with single - syllable middle names, like «Kinsley Ann», or even «Kinsley Jade».

Then ask him to say the name of the fruit and clap out the syllables, like this:

Or, when you hear a syllable you can't identify, just respond enthusiastically with something like, «Yes, that is a car!

Fine more activities that involve songs and singing, like Syllables and Songs and Soothing Singing.

I think when they said baby talk, they did nt mean the high pitched voice mothers like us enjoy (as well as our babies) using when we talk to our babies.I believe they meant the non-sense string of syllables that others tend to use that is in no way resembling any word in the english language or any other language for that matter.I am bilingual and so is my husband and we make sure we talk to him using real words, high pitched or not.

After Nick Clegg said «in words of one syllable» that the Human Rights Act «is here to stay», home secretary Theresa May responded this week by saying she'd like to see the New Labour legislation scrapped.

The next step is to find out if mice can go beyond tweaking their pitch and incorporate entirely new syllables in their repertoire, like parrots can.

This study shows that, like their adult counterparts, newborns are sensitive to the universal syllable hierarchy.

Next, the team played syllable sounds like «ba» and «da» to the children and immediately recorded their brain waves responding to the sounds with electrodes pasted to their heads.

For example, without this mechanism, people wouldn't be able to distinguish that the first syllable is shorter than the second in a word such as «papa» [sounds like pa - pah], says Alluri, the study's first author.

Most striking is the ability of human babies to selectively attend to language, spontaneously babble in syllables and quickly pick up the grammar of the surrounding language to produce novel sentences like «We holded the baby rabbits» and «Hey, Horton heared a Who.»

Sometimes we sing the syllables Sa Ta Na Ma, or sometimes an English affirmation like «I Am Strong.»

Now I have the utmost respect for the medical profession, but don't you think that doctors would like their patients to be well informed so that they don't have to speak with words of one syllable?

Although I suppose the festival doesn't have a problem with celebrity at all; it's resoundingly for it, scheduling generic junk like Renny Harlin's Cleaner and David J. Burke's Edison (retitled Edison Force for DVD, a title which somehow seems even less distinctive despite the extra syllables) for splashy red carpets because they featured friends of the fest like Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey.

«I'm ready, I'm ready now,» Hanna remarks, sounding to the syllable just like the marriage - minded Bobby in the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.

When Violet stumbles down the stairs, Beverly bristles in her presence, each syllable of her endless, intermittently nonsensical small talk prodding at him like a battalion of pitchforks.

Like the understated Walken, your ears will be left muttering a single syllable in surprise.

They will also learn some key related topics in English pronunciation, like syllable length and placement.

Phonics, sounding out syllables and words, tactile exercises like drawing in sand to associate letter shape with sound, mnemonics, are the supports at the outset of this crucial learning curve.

That there is plenty of opportunity to use genres like poetry and drama to reinforce the learning of letter sounds, syllables, vocabulary, morphology?

ALuv and I have already used some of the sorts from Syllables and Affixes to help him with his reading -LCB- like we did with our base words activity and our open and closed syllables -RCB-, but his spelling level is still at the Within Word PatteSyllables and Affixes to help him with his reading -LCB- like we did with our base words activity and our open and closed syllables -RCB-, but his spelling level is still at the Within Word Pattesyllables -RCB-, but his spelling level is still at the Within Word Pattern level.

In 2000, a national panel of experts concluded that reading teachers need explicit knowledge of language features that most people know only implicitly: syntax, morphology (how the roots of words can combine with one another or with prefixes or suffixes) and phonological awareness (the ability to hear parts of spoken language like syllables and individual speech sounds).

In this section we will focus only on one - syllable words with a simple onset that has only one sound (phoneme): words like dog but not frog.

VocabularySpellingCity's instructional videos, located on the bottom of the page, showcase innovative ways to introduce syllables to emergent readers, like robot speech.

Later in high school, students will examine stressed and unstressed syllables, specifically iambic pentameter, in literary pieces like William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Like any other text, poems are made up of syllables, which create rhythms when spoken.

As a (non-book) designer, I see things like widows and orphans (including widowed syllables following hyphenation!)

MACAULAY: A lot of my readers will already know how to say a seven - syllable dinosaur name, so I'm not worried about using words like combustion chamber.

One - syllable names like Jack and Max make learning and recognition somewhat easier for your dog.

If you like a name that has a syllable on the end of it, so much the better.

Dog names should always have two syllables (both for calling your dog and for training), should be easy to pronounce, and not sound a lot like another person or pet in the household.

It was a tweeted response to Cathy Salter's interpretation of travel on the Columbia Daily Tribune, «Travel... six letters flowing like melted French Brie across two syllables.»

In its syllables she heard something that «sounded like it could be a Berlin - based techno band, or a king from a fairy tale.»