syllabify
IPA: sʌɫˈæbɪfaɪ
verb
- To divide a word into syllables; to syllabicate; to syllabize.
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Examples of "syllabify" in Sentences
- I'm no expert, just wondering according to which principles you syllabify.
- Hmmm, that doesn't sound right to me since phonotactic restrictions would cause the nasal to syllabify before the laryngeal and then it would be pronounced **m̥h₂ḱros, no?
- It proves that this was so since there are only so many ways in which a word may syllabify according to the basic principle of sonority hierarchy, an important concept in phonetics.
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