More perky local crowd-pleaser than festival film, scriptwriter Katarina Sulajova's debut feature "Two Syllables Behind" says a lot about the post-communist world of Eastern Europe -- in this case, ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door'). Breaking ...

The word 'doctor' contains two syllables -- doc-tor. Then there's 'pottery', which contains three (pott-er-y) and 'God', which contains just one. If you still don't know what syllables are, exactly, ...

The cognitive system encodes the first and last syllables of words better than middle syllables. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that this cognitive mechanism is present from birth.