syllabification

Noun

Meaning

Same as Syllabication.

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Due to the very weak correspondence between sounds and letters in the spelling of modern English, for example, written syllabification in English has to be based mostly on etymological i.e. morphological instead of phonetic principles. Source: Internet

The word may be divided at the nearest break point between syllables ( syllabification ), and a hyphen inserted to indicate that the letters form a word fragment, rather than a full word. Source: Internet

In most languages, the actually spoken syllables are the basis of syllabification in writing too. Source: Internet

Other defects of English are its uncertain syllabification and unpredictable stress." Source: Internet

Spaces between words are not counted in syllabification, so for instance "cat" is a long syllable in isolation, but "cat attack" would be syllabified as short-short-long: "ca", "ta", "tack" (υ υ –). Source: Internet

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