syllabification
Breaking words apart
Syllabification is the division of words into syllables.
The term appears in discussions of pronunciation, poetry, and how words break across lines of text.
Different languages follow different syllabification rules: English syllabification can be tricky because spelling doesn't always match pronunciation.
Minimal sound distinctions
- morphemesSmallest meaningful language units
- segmentationDivision into sections
- vowelsLetters with unblocked airflow
- consonantsLetters that aren't vowels
onset · coda · nucleus · sonority · diphthong · allophone · transcription · clusters
Dash-based word linking
- linebreaksPoints where text continues below
- justificationReason proving rightness
- typesettingArranging text for print
- wordwrapAutomatic line continuation
printing · layout · formatting · margins · columns · pagination · ragged · kerning
Device that measures usage
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
- verseMetered poetic passage
- prosodyStudy of verse rhythm
- iambicVerse rhythm type
trochaic · dactylic · anapestic · pentameter · hexameter · stanza · linebreaks · caesura
Correct letter sequence
- literacyAbility to read, write
- readingInterpreting written text
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- phonicsSound-based reading instruction
teaching · pedagogy · curriculum · textbooks · classroom · vocabulary · pronounceable · worksheets
phonemes
Minimal sound distinctions
- morphemesSmallest meaningful language units
- segmentationDivision into sections
- vowelsLetters with unblocked airflow
consonants · onset · coda · nucleus · sonority · diphthong · allophone · transcription · clusters · boundaries
hyphenation
Dash-based word linking
- linebreaksPoints where text continues below
- justificationReason proving rightness
- typesettingArranging text for print
wordwrap · printing · layout · formatting · margins · columns · pagination · ragged · kerning
meter
Device that measures usage
iambic · trochaic · dactylic · anapestic · pentameter · hexameter · stanza · linebreaks · caesura · enjambment
spelling
Correct letter sequence
- literacyAbility to read, write
- readingInterpreting written text
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
phonics · teaching · pedagogy · curriculum · textbooks · classroom · vocabulary · pronounceable · worksheets · drills
- Pronunciationphonetic spelling, pronunciation key, pronunciation keys, word stress, sentence stress
- NLPtokenization, natural language processing, NLP, parsing, stemming
- phonologyphonemes, phoneme, consonants, vowels, allophone
- sound changesassimilation, elision, deletion, voicing, nasalization
- syllablesdisyllable, trisyllable, polysyllable, onset, coda
- spellingspelling, spelling rules, spelling patterns, spelling errors, spelling conventions
syllabificationconcatenation
Joining items end-to-end
fusion · blending · elision · contraction · synthesis
bisyllabic, syllable, syllables, syllabic, monosyllabic, polysyllabic, monosyllable, syllabled, syllabication