syllabicity

IPA: sˈɪɫʌbˈɪsʌti

The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.

Examples of "syllabicity" in Sentences

At any rate, as you can see, there are many ways in which a language may try to normalize words that violate its syllabicity rules.
But even if metathesis had operated on it, its final resonant creates problems for word syllabicity when consonant-initial affixes are applied.
Therefore it doesn't qualify as a valid test of my rule since *u carries syllabicity even though it's technically a consonant *w on a certain abstract level.
Syncope would then fail to affect the final vowel in order to avoid syllabicity issues, thus a bare inanimate wordform *kérnə in the nominative and accusative cases.
Over the years, I've slowly come to the conclusion that Syncope didn't obliterate all the schwas in early Late IE eLIE and that a few resisted the rule due to reasons regarding proper syllabicity.
This 'something' is phonotactic restructuring which would reestablish sanity in the language's syllabicity despite the murderous deletion of so many unstressed vowels, and this likely occurred through various means depending on the nature of the syllabic violation in question.