Syllable Awareness: Segmenting Words into Syllables - CopycatHallie Kay|YoppRuth Helen
syllabicate, syllabify, syllabise, syllabize - divide into syllables; "syllabify the words" quarter - divide into quarters; "quarter an apple" 2. segment - divide or split up; "The cells segmented" divide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" sectio...
One factor that makes an item “word-like” is its similarity to other words in the language, or its lexical neighborhood. Thus, precursor syllables with dense lexical neighborhoods (such as /fɪp/) might make it easier to spot a following word than precursor syllables with few lexical ...
Understanding how speakers segment continuous speech into meaningful units is fundamental for communication and language learning. The segmentation process heavily relies on calculating transitional probabilities between segments and syllables. High transitional probabilities suggest that elements belong to the ...