👉 Monostelic is a term used in linguistics, specifically in the field of phonetics and phonology. It refers to a single vowel sound or consonant that appears only once during a word's pronunciation. In other words, a monostelic sound is a single syllable sound that does not have any other sounds after it in the word. For example, "sun" has two monostelic sounds: "sun" and "un." Monostelic sounds are important because they help