Later examples omitted direct references to individual syllables, such as the following, said to be a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt:

Melismatic chants feature long, florid runs of notes, called melismas, on individual syllables.

The underlying theory is that people can read faster if they absorb material in chunks of words rather than as individual syllables or words.

And she, too, was rough in the Strauss songs, tinkering with the vowels of individual syllables, working hard to create the right effect.

She has a notion, quite correct in my experience, that all readers start out slow, savoring individual syllables and words.

There are also large differences in the frequencies of individual syllables among the Rapanui texts, which makes any direct identification problematic.

Often, individual syllables were reversed or pitch-shifted.

There may be greater movement over individual syllables in Singlish than in other varieties of English.

He went from funny jokes to funny sentences to funny words, and finally he began to get hung up on individual syllables.

Tones were thus represented by placing a tone number at the end of individual syllables.