You'll note that 'any' is properly divided into -two- distinct phonemes, and hence, two syllables.
You cannot say 'any' without changing the way your mouth is making the sound of the word; the mouth closes somewhat, the tongue comes forward in the mouth and touches the roof of the mouth when the 'y' bit is said, which is distinctly different to how your mouth makes the 'an' part of the word.)
I know this is an Am-English dictionary, but it says the same in my Brit-English dictionary as well.
Technically, I think you're wrong in calling them 'phonemes'. The 'ny' bit can clearly be divided into smaller units of sound: /n/ and /i/. Maybe the word you're looking for is 'feet'? I'm not hip to the whole syllable thing.
Very crudely (can't be arsed unicoding myself up some proper IPA symbols), the word 'anyone' would be represented as something like this, with the period symbol representing syllable breaks: /e.ni.wun/
I'd totally love to hear how you woudl say 'anyone' as a two syllable word. I'm trying really hard, but it don't sound like English to me. :(
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=any
You'll note that 'any' is properly divided into -two- distinct phonemes, and hence, two syllables.
You cannot say 'any' without changing the way your mouth is making the sound of the word; the mouth closes somewhat, the tongue comes forward in the mouth and touches the roof of the mouth when the 'y' bit is said, which is distinctly different to how your mouth makes the 'an' part of the word.)
I know this is an Am-English dictionary, but it says the same in my Brit-English dictionary as well.
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Very crudely (can't be arsed unicoding myself up some proper IPA symbols), the word 'anyone' would be represented as something like this, with the period symbol representing syllable breaks: /e.ni.wun/
I'd totally love to hear how you woudl say 'anyone' as a two syllable word. I'm trying really hard, but it don't sound like English to me. :(
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http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/zuraw/200A_2004/16StressII.pdf
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html
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