monosyllabicity
(mɒnəʊsɪləˈbɪsɪtɪ)
[f. monosyllable n. + -icity.]
= monosyllabism. Also monosyllabiˈcation.
| 1951 N. C. Bodman in Language XXVII. 205 There has been no change..in the monosyllabicity of the Chinese morpheme from the most ancient times that we know of to the present. 1956 J. Whatmough Language iii. 42 The ideal seems to be..somewhere between the extremes of monosyllabication and polysynthesis. 1957 Archivum Linguisticum IX. 73 Grappin might have mentioned..the monosyllabicity of bóbr. 1968 Language XLIV. 131 The simultaneous trend toward polysyllabic creations in pseudo-scientific language and monosyllabicity (the mods, the frug). |