Wellsean Syllabification and Recapitulation Symbols in the LPD Of course, Wellsean syllabification has exceptions, which, I believe, are often a result of how Wells himself feels a word is syllabified The only one that comes to mind right now is the name Sade, as in – the singer Sade, which is ˈʃɑː deɪ , but there are many more
What are the arguments against Wells’s syllabification of English? In Syllabification and Allophony John Wells argues for a view of English syllabification based on phonetic processes within the pronunciation of words He mentions elsewhere that it is unorthodox, but to my eyes his arguments are very convincing
Is syllabification significant in (natural) spoken languages? Not sure if it counts as being ‘significant’, but in Danish, syllabification is generally taken as the main factor in how border consonants (i e , consonants that separate word-internal syllables σ1 and σ2) are pronounced Syllabification is based on the reduction of the vowel in σ2: if reduced, syllabify as late as possible, otherwise as early as possible: for example, (archaic) rata
english - Does pre-fortis clipping only operate within a syllable? If . . . John Wells's blog entry about the topic quotes his article "Syllabification and allophony", where he describes the rule as follows: English vowels are subject to pre-fortis clipping, then, when they are followed by a fortis consonant within the same syllable
computational linguistics - Is there an automatic way to divide French . . . Question: I am looking for a way to automate the process of dividing words into syllables This can be an algorithm that implements some rule system of syllabification, or a pre-made lookup table of french words along with their syllables in some clear format (something like élément -> é lé ment; méchant -> mé chant; ) What I could find: