yellowflowering
The word 'yellow-flowering' is syllabified as yel-low-flow-er-ing, with primary stress on 'yel'. It's a compound adjective formed from 'yellow' and the present participle 'flowering'. Syllable division follows standard English rules based on vowel nuclei and maximizing onsets.
Definitions
- 1
Having yellow flowers; characterized by yellow flowers.
“The yellow-flowering shrub attracted many bees.”
Stress pattern
Primary stress on the first syllable ('yel'), secondary stress on the third syllable ('flow')
Syllables
yel — Open syllable, onset consonant 'y', vowel nucleus 'e', coda 'l'. low — Open syllable, vowel nucleus 'əʊ'. flow — Open syllable, consonant cluster 'fl' as onset, vowel nucleus 'aʊ'. er — Syllable with schwa vowel, unstressed. ing — Closed syllable, onset 'r', vowel nucleus 'ɪ', coda 'ŋ'
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Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV)
Vowels generally form syllable nuclei, and consonants are assigned to either the onset or coda of the adjacent syllable.
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Consonant clusters are broken to create permissible onsets (initial consonant sounds of a syllable).
- The hyphenated structure could lead to alternative prosodic interpretations, but formal syllabification treats it as a single word.
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