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cultural anthropology

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7 syllables
21 characters
English (US)
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7syllables

cultural anthropology

Linguistic Analysis

Syllables

cul-tur-al an-thro-pol-o-gy

Pronunciation

/ˌkʌl.tʃər.əl ˌæn.θrə.ˈpɑ.lə.dʒi/

Stress

100 21010

Morphemes

cult-, anthrop-, -log- + -ure, -al, -y

Cultural anthropology is an 8-syllable noun phrase. 'Cultural' (3 syllables: cul-tur-al) has initial stress and derives from Latin 'cultus' + '-al'. 'Anthropology' (5 syllables: an-thro-pol-o-gy) has primary stress on 'pol' and secondary on 'an', combining Greek 'anthropos' (human) and 'logos' (study). Maximal Onset Principle and VCC patterns govern syllable boundaries.

Definitions

noun
  1. 1

    The branch of anthropology that studies human cultures, including beliefs, practices, social structures, and material artifacts, with emphasis on comparative and cross-cultural analysis.

    “She earned her PhD in cultural anthropology, focusing on indigenous communities.”

    “Cultural anthropology examines how societies construct meaning through rituals and symbols.”

    syn:social anthropologyethnology

Stress pattern

In 'cultural', primary stress (1) falls on the first syllable 'cul'. In 'anthropology', secondary stress (2) falls on 'an', primary stress (1) falls on 'pol', and the remaining syllables are unstressed (0).

Syllables

8
cul/kʌl/
tur/tʃər/
al/əl/
an/æn/
thro/θrə/
pol/ˈpɑl/
o/ə/
gy/dʒi/

cul — Closed syllable, primary stress, onset /k/, nucleus /ʌ/, coda /l/.. tur — Closed syllable, unstressed, onset /tʃ/, nucleus /ər/.. al — Closed syllable, unstressed, no onset, nucleus /ə/, coda /l/.. an — Closed syllable, secondary stress, no onset, nucleus /æ/, coda /n/.. thro — Open syllable, unstressed, onset /θr/, nucleus /ə/.. pol — Closed syllable, primary stress, onset /p/, nucleus /ɑ/, coda /l/.. o — Open syllable, unstressed, no onset, nucleus /ə/.. gy — Open syllable, unstressed, onset /dʒ/, nucleus /i/.

Word Parts

root

cult-, anthrop-, -log-

cult- from Latin 'cultus' (cultivation/worship); anthrop- from Greek 'ánthropos' (human being); -log- from Greek 'logos' (study/discourse).

suf

-ure, -al, -y

-ure (Latin nominal suffix); -al (Latin adjectival suffix 'pertaining to'); -y (Greek '-ia' forming nouns of study).

Similar Words

so­ci­ol­o­gypsy­chol­o­gynat­ur­al

Maximal Onset Principle

Consonants are assigned to the following syllable when they form legal English onset clusters: /tʃ/ in 'cultural', /θr/ in 'anthropology'.

VCC Pattern

When two consonants appear between vowels and cannot form a legal onset together, split between them: 'an-thro' splits after /n/ because /nθr/ is not a legal onset.

Morpheme Boundary

Suffixes '-al' and '-y' form separate syllables respecting morphological structure.

Word Boundary

The two-word phrase is syllabified word by word, maintaining the space as a boundary.

  • Two-word compound noun phrase; each word syllabified independently.
  • Greek combining form 'anthropo-' is not phonetically respected in syllabification; 'thro-pol' crosses the morpheme boundary.
  • British English variant /ˌænθrəˈpɒlədʒi/ uses a different vowel in 'pol' but maintains the same syllable structure.
Analysis by claude · 12/29/2025

Nearby Words

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