syllabification

Example Sentences

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This was uttered with such blinding rapidity of syllabification as to be a better test of teetotalism than the Scotch one of saying "Biblical criticism" six times.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

For further details on syllabification in our oldest Latin manuscripts, see Th.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)

Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

Possibly the study might more accurately be called word-study, since it aims also at training for pronunciation, syllabification, vocabulary extension, and etymology.

From What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by Bobbitt, John Franklin