(a.) Pertaining to syllables; pronounced with careful distinction of syllables\.

accented alphabetic character alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral character checked cipher close consonant consonantal continuant dental device dissimilated dorsal flat front glide glossal glottal graph grapheme guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labiodental labiovelar lateral lax letter lexigraphic character light lingual liquid low mid monogram monophthongal muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open oxytone palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonetic character phonetic symbol phonic pictographic character pitch pitched posttonic retroflex rounded semivowel sign soft sonant stopped stressed strong surd symbol tense thick throaty tonal tonic twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike weak wide writing written character