syllable

nouns

a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

"the word `pocket' has two syllables"

syllable

is derived from

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is a part of

a unit of language that native speakers can identify

"words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

is a type of (narrower)

one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed