n
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
n
Archaic spelling of caesura. [A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.]
n
Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech.
adj
Within / during a pause
n
(linguistics) A process in historical linguistics by which negation is expressed first by a simple preverbal marker, then by a discontinuous marker (with elements both before and after the verb, as in the French ne...pas) and in some cases through subsequent loss of the original preverbal marker, and so on.
n
(animation) The four frames of silence between each line of dialog. The name refers to what would be normal pausing between words in the cadence of someone's typical speech pattern.
n
(linguistics, phonology) The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
adj
(chiefly linguistics) Falling in the position after initial position; second.
n
(linguistics) an unemphatic word stressed as part of the preceding word
adj
Following or occurring after a consonant.
adj
(linguistics) After a pause in speech.
adv
(linguistics) After a pause in speech.
adj
(linguistics) Formed or occurring after the syntactic stage.
adj
Pre-occluded; marked by the phonological process of preocclusion.
n
(linguistics) A pause or utterance indicating disagreement to the listener before any disagreeing statement is made.
adj
(phonetics) Before a fricative.
n
(phonetics) The group of unstressed syllables preceding the head (if present) or nucleus (if there is no head).
adj
(phonetics) Preceding the initial.
n
Vocal utterances that precede the development of language.
adv
In a prelinguistic manner or context; before the acquisition of language.
adj
(linguistics) Before a pause in speech.
adv
(linguistics) Before a pause in speech.
adj
(linguistics) Prior to a phonetic stage.
adj
Pre-occluded; marked by the phonological process of preocclusion.
n
The phonological process of preocclusion.
n
mouth movements made by infants, regarded as a precursor to the development of speech
n
The phonological process of preocclusion.
adj
(linguistics) Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
adj
That immediately precedes a stressed syllable
n
(neologism) The process of building pretotypes to test the viability of a product before attempting to actually prototype it.
adj
(linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
n
A minor vocal sound produced in advance of a significant sound.
n
A temporary stop in any form of speech.
n
(linguistics) A voice stop in the formation of which air behind the articulation is rarefied with consequent inrush of air when articulation is broken.
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