👉 In linguistics, a pluriaxial is an aspect of speech that refers to the use of more than one vowel sound in a word. This can occur in languages with two or more vowels, such as English or Spanish. For example, the word "apple" has three syllables (a, e, and u), but it contains two additional syllables ("l", which is not a vowel). In this sense, pluriaxial speech refers to the ability of a speaker to