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| phonology Groupie Peru Joined 3711 days ago 40 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 1 of 5 29 April 2015 at 7:52am | IP Logged |
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Knowing how to divide words into syllables can greatly help with your spelling and
reading skills as well as your ability to pronounce words correctly. Does that served in all languages? Edited by phonology on 29 April 2015 at 7:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7204 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 5 29 April 2015 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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Syllabification in Spanish is very powerful.
I've noticed it useful in French. In English, my native language, I wondered why it was taught. In that case, it seemed like grammar, which I also didn't appreciate as a subject. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 5 29 April 2015 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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Pre-computers it was needed for carrying over to a new line while writing by hand.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 4 of 5 30 April 2015 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
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FAMILY
syllabification: fam-i-ly pronunciation: fæmli, -m(ə)l- EVERY old syllabification: e-ve-ry new syllabification: eve-ry pronunciation: ɛvri (ɛvəri can be heard in poetry) In 100 years' time, I bet FAMILY will be syllabified as: fami-ly (like it occurred with every) Edited by Medulin on 30 April 2015 at 3:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nowneverends Newbie United States Joined 5434 days ago 26 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 5 30 April 2015 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
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What's a word?
What's a syllable? Two questions with seemingly super obvious answers that are still topics of debate among linguists. To respond more directly to the original question, the skills you are referring to are commonly called phonemic awareness by reading teachers. Phonemic awareness includes blending (/k/ /æ/ /t/ makes "cat"), segmenting ("cat" contains the phonemes /k/ /æ/ /t/), and other skills such as phoneme isolation, deletion, and substitution. To me, this skill seems incredibly useful for learning to read and write, particularly in languages with more regular spelling systems. In addition, it is an essential skill to develop for distinguishing between minimal pairs (words that are distinguished by just one phoneme, such as "cat" and "hat"). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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