syllablenote

A syllablenote is an annotation attached to a syllable within linguistic transcriptions, dictionaries, or pedagogical materials to convey information about that syllable. The term combines the idea of a syllable with a note or remark, and it is used in contexts where additional syllable-level detail is helpful for analysis, teaching, or data processing. It is not a standardized feature across all linguistic or language-education traditions, but rather a descriptive label for a family of annotations that may appear in various schemes.

In practice, a syllablenote may denote prosodic, phonetic, or structural aspects of a syllable. Commonly encoded information includes syllable boundaries, stress, vowel quality, or syllable type (open vs. closed). In teaching materials, syllablenotes can guide learners through syllable division and pronunciation. In corpora and annotation schemes, they help researchers quantify patterns of syllable structure and prosody, often alongside phonemic or phonetic transcriptions.

Representation methods vary. Syllablenotes are frequently attached directly after the syllable, using parentheses, brackets, or superscript markers, and may be serialized in data files as inline tags or annotations. For example, a syllable might appear as "ba" with a following note indicating stress or vowel quality. The lack of a single standard means implementations differ across resources.

See also: phonetic transcription, syllabification, prosody, linguistic annotation.