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Syllabification (Pronunciation: /sɨˈlæbɨfɨˈkeɪʃən/ si-LAB-i-fi-KAY-shən) or syllabication (/sɨˈlæbɨˈkeɪʃən/ si-LAB-i-KAY-shən) is the separation of a word into syllables, whether spoken or written.^[1]

The written separation is usually marked by a hyphen when using English orthography (e.g., syl-la-ble) and with a period when transcribing in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (e.g., [ˈsɪl.ə.bᵊɫ]). For presentation purposes, typographers may use an interpunct (Unicode character U+00B7, e.g., syl·la·ble), or a special-purpose "hyphenation point" (U+2027, e.g., syl‧la‧ble).

At the end of a line, a word is separated in writing into parts conventionally called "syllables" if it does not fit and if moving it to the next line would make the first line much shorter than the others. This can be a particular problem with very long words. Word processing has automated the process of justification, making syllabification of shorter words often superfluous.

In some languages, the spoken syllables are also the basis of syllabification in writing. However, possibly due to the weak correspondence between sounds and letters in the spelling of modern English, written syllabification in English is based mostly on etymological or morphological instead of phonetic principles. For example, it is not possible to syllabify "learning" as lear-ning according to the correct syllabification of the living language. Seeing only lear- at the end of a line might mislead the reader into pronouncing the word incorrectly, as the digraph ea can hold many different values. The history of English orthography accounts for such phenomena.

English written syllabification therefore deals with a concept of "syllable" that doesn't correspond to the linguistic concept of a phonetic (as opposed to morphological) unit.

As a result, even most native English speakers are unable to syllabify words accurately without consulting a dictionary or using a word processor^{[citation needed]}. The process is, in fact, so complicated that even schools usually do not provide much more advice on the topic than to consult a dictionary. In addition, there are differences between British and US syllabification and even between dictionaries of the same English variety.

In Finnish, Italian, Portuguese and other nearly phonemically spelled languages, writers can in principle correctly syllabify any existing or newly created word using only general rules. In Finland, children are first taught to hyphenate every word until they produce the correct syllabification reliably, after which the hyphens can be omitted.

External links

Online Lyric Hyphenator: Hyphenates English text into syllables
Online hyphenation tool: Hyphenation algorithms for several languages
Hyphenation tool for the French Language: Hyphenates French words with explanation

References

^ The term is also used for the process of a consonant becoming syllabic. For example, in North Central American English, "can" may be pronounced [kən], or [kn̩] with the a syllabic /n/.

English Journal

THE INFLUENCE OF SYLLABIFICATION RULES IN L1 ON L2 WORD RECOGNITION.

Choi W1, Nam K2, Lee Y3.
Psychological reports.Psychol Rep.2015 Oct;117(2):535-53. doi: 10.2466/28.PR0.117c17z9. Epub 2015 Sep 4.
Experiments with Korean learners of English and English monolinguals were conducted to examine whether knowledge of syllabification in the native language (Korean) affects the recognition of printed words in the non-native language (English). Another purpose of this study was to test whether syllabl
PMID 26340053

Neural signatures of response planning occur midway through an incoming question in conversation.

Bögels S1, Magyari L2, Levinson SC3.
Scientific reports.Sci Rep.2015 Aug 5;5:12881. doi: 10.1038/srep12881.
A striking puzzle about language use in everyday conversation is that turn-taking latencies are usually very short, whereas planning language production takes much longer. This implies overlap between language comprehension and production processes, but the nature and extent of such overlap has neve
PMID 26242909

Segmentation of written words in French.

Chetail F1, Content A.
Language and speech.Lang Speech.2013 Mar;56(Pt 1):125-42.
Syllabification of spoken words has been largely used to define syllabic properties of written words, such as the number of syllables or syllabic boundaries. By contrast, some authors proposed that the functional structure of written words stems from visuo-orthographic features rather than from the
PMID 23654119

Japanese Journal

C7. Effect of syllabification at the initial stage of L2 learning : An analysis of intervocalic consonant duration(Summaries of Talks at the 21^<th> General Meeting)

Kato Akiko
音声研究 11(3), 115-116, 2007-12-30
NAID 110008763247

Syllabification in lexical representation

Takahashi Toyomi
音韻研究 (10), 105-112, 2007-00-00
NAID 40015642411

英語話者と日本語話者による英語子音群の分節

石川圭一
音声研究 10(1), 70-95, 2006-04-30
… 母音と子音をどのように音節にまとめるかという問題は,分節(syllabification)の過程に現れる。 …
NAID 110008763105

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[1] The term is also used for the process of a consonant becoming syllabic. For example, in North Central American English, "can" may be pronounced [kən], or [kn̩] with the a syllabic /n/.

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