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  2. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    At the end of a line, a word is separated in writing into parts, conventionally called "syllables", if it does not fit the line 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, and with narrow columns in newspapers.

  3. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. [1] They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ...

  4. Iambic pentameter - Wikipedia

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    Iambic pentameter (/ aɪˌæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtər / eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line. Rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". "Iambic" indicates that the type of foot used ...

  5. Phonotactics - Wikipedia

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    Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek phōnḗ 'voice, sound' and taktikós 'having to do with arranging') [1] is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters and vowel sequences by means of phonotactic constraints.

  6. Text segmentation - Wikipedia

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    Text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics. The term applies both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject of natural language processing. The problem is non-trivial, because while ...

  7. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Help:IPA/Japanese. Help. : IPA/Japanese. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing ...

  8. Phonological rule - Wikipedia

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    Phonological rules can be roughly divided into four types: Assimilation : When a sound changes one of its features to be more similar to an adjacent sound. This is the kind of rule that occurs in the English plural rule described above—the -s becomes voiced or voiceless depending on whether or not the preceding consonant is voiced.

  9. Synaeresis - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, synaeresis (/ sɪˈnɛrəsɪs /; also spelled syneresis) is a phonological process of sound change in which two adjacent vowels within a word are combined into a single syllable. [1] The opposite process, in which two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately, is known as "diaeresis". For any given word, speakers generally hold ...