Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your “fire” closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...