Why separate words into syllables?
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Posted By: phonology
Subject: Why separate words into syllables?
Date Posted: 29 April 2015 at 7:52am
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?
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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.
luke on 29 April 2015
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Pre-computers it was needed for carrying over to a new line while writing by hand.
Serpent on 29 April 2015
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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)
Medulin on 30 April 2015
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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").
nowneverends on 30 April 2015
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