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Syllabification (/sɪˌlæbɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/) or
syllabication (/sɪˌlæbɪˈkeɪʃən/), also
known as hyphenation, is the
separation of a word into syllables, whether...
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stress (so-called
quantitative rhythm or
quantitative meter).
Syllabification is the
separation of a word into syllables,
whether spoken or written...
- kala 'fish' is
syllabified ka-la.
Consonant combinations are
syllabified before the last consonant:
linna 'town [gen sg]' is
syllabified lin-na, tutvus...
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Tongan (English pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an
Austronesian language of the
Polynesian branch native to the
island nation...
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syllable and the rest
start the
following syllable. For example,
Latin syllabifies volat as vo-lat but
dignus as dig-nus and
monstrum as mon-strum. A few...
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prefixes (see below).
Hyphenation is also
routinely used as part of
syllabification in
justified texts to
avoid unsightly spacing (especially in columns...
- ˈCVCCV
syllabify as /ˈCVC.V/ and /ˈCVCC.V/, as long as the
consonant cluster CC is a
possible syllable coda; in addition, /r/
preferentially syllabifies with...
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counted in
syllabification, so for
instance "cat" is a long
syllable in isolation, but "cat attack"
would be
syllabified as short-short-long:...
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those of some
speakers in
Jamaica and the Bahamas. In some accents,
syllabification may
interact with
rhoticity and
result in
homophones for
which non-rhotic...
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nasal alone and
shorter than a
sequence of
nasal plus stop. The
nasal is
syllabified with the
onset of the
following syllable,
which means that the moraic...
