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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SYLLABIFICATION
SYLLABIFICATION
Definitions of SYLLABIFICATION
- The division of a word into syllables.
Number of letters
15
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using SYLLABIFICATION in a Sentence
- One school of thought states that the dalit is Spanish in origin, particularly because its syllabification is even or pares.
- In Finland, children are first taught to hyphenate every word until they produce the correct syllabification reliably, after which the hyphens can be omitted.
- There are contemporary corrections in slanting uncial script which employ a Greek syllabification similar to that used by Victor of Capua.
- These clusters represents the deletion of short vowels and the syllabification of medial consonants in the phonology of Darija, a feature shared with and derived from Amazigh languages.
- Garvin did various descriptive work describing the phonemics, morphology, and syllabification in Ktunaxa.
- The subsequent 2010 reform, though, declared that for orthographic and syllabification purposes such letter combinations should always be considered diphthongs, so the only correct spelling is now guion and truhan.
- According to both authors, the reduced vowel (schwa) does not need to be shown in a respelling so long as syllabification and syllable stress are shown.
- No word-initial geminates - in all other syllables, geminates are allowed only in the onset (hyphenation and syllabification in Turkish match except for this point; hyphenation splits the geminates).
- In some accents, syllabification may interact with rhoticity and result in homophones for which non-rhotic accents have centering diphthongs.
- Further research on syllabification and stress assignment has established a dichotomy between languages whose syllabification relies on the use of codas and those whose right-edge constituents are best analyzed as the onsets of empty-headed syllables.
- Sanskrit jīhvā > *jīh•vā (syllabification) > *jih•vā (two-mora rule, long vowel shortened) > *jivh•vā (h assimilates to stronger sound) > *jiv•vhā (-ChC- > -CCh-) > *jib•bhā (fortition) > Pali and Prakrit jibbhā "tongue", whence Hindustani jībh "tongue".
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