Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
syllabication .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
syllabication .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the division of a word into syllables.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun forming or dividing words into syllables
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most important were those involving 'syllabification' - the ability of children to produce well-formed syllables with rapid movements of the jaw and tongue.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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My late wife, who was Scottish, distinguished the metal from the flattening implement by her syllabification.
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So, it seems to me that while Metathesis occurred in positions after the stress accent to remedy awkward syllabification, a-Epenthesis the left-to-right insertion of *a occurred in positions *before* the stress accent.
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* Note: it seems to me that IE phonology had syllabification rules which favored open syllables, i.e. most consonant clusters would be analyzed as onsets rather than sequences of coda(s)-plus-onset(s).
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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So, it seems to me that while Metathesis occurred in positions after the stress accent to remedy awkward syllabification, a-Epenthesis the left-to-right insertion of *a occurred in positions *before* the stress accent.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.
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If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification.
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Possibly the study might more accurately be called word-study, since it aims also at training for pronunciation, syllabification, vocabulary extension, and etymology.
What the Schools Teach and Might Teach John Franklin Bobbitt
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His attention is called to syllabification as well as to diacritical marks.
How to Teach Phonics Lida M. Williams
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As such they are the carriers of practically all significant differences in stress, pitch, and syllabification.
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