The most important were those involving 'syllabification' - the ability of children to produce well-formed syllables with rapid movements of the jaw and tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
His attention is called to syllabification as well as to diacritical marks. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Phonics] Reference
My late wife, who was Scottish, distinguished the metal from the flattening implement by her syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of Blunders | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
Possibly the study might more accurately be called word-study, since it aims also at training for pronunciation, syllabification, vocabulary extension, and etymology. From Wordnik.com. [What the Schools Teach and Might Teach] Reference
If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [The Murders in the Rue Morgue] Reference
English ligation is independent of syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
Ligation is not separable from syllabification, in other words. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
Slide 18: NOTATION: Different systems exist for indicating syllabification and stress. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
As such they are the carriers of practically all significant differences in stress, pitch, and syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3. The Sounds of Language] Reference
I mean to say that the sound was one of distinct -- of even wonderfully, thrillingly distinct -- syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
Headwords in entries are marked with small crosses or raised dots to show syllabification as a guide to hyphenation. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4] Reference
Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
Japan, while the tapping of the castanets kept exact time to the syllabification of the words, which were very rapidly uttered. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
This was uttered with such blinding rapidity of syllabification as to be a better test of teetotalism than the Scotch one of saying. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
Infants show voluntary control of syllabification and voice in the first months of life and refine this skill as they acquire language. From Wordnik.com. [Lockergnome] Reference
Of the 12 acoustic parameters analyzed for vocal development, syllabification (producing well-formed syllables with rapid jaw and tongue movements) proved most telling, according to the research. From Wordnik.com. [eCoustics.com news] Reference
The most important of these parameters proved to be the ones targeting syllabification, the ability of children to produce well-formed syllables with rapid movements of the jaw and tongue during vocalization. From Wordnik.com. [Lockergnome] Reference
And then this great double-round, formed by fully five hundred dancers, begins also to revolve from right to left -- lightly, fantastically -- all the tossing of arms and white twinkling of feet keeping faultless time to the measured syllabification of the chant. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
| syllabification to what superficially corresponds with |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Jim Herlan, that’s an interesting way of thinking about French syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [l'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I have just spoken, with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Murders in the Rue Morgue] Reference
I work in a college training vicars and so get a fair bit of exposure to how people suddenly realise that they have no models to go on and that the ‘regular’ syllabification doesn’t lend itself to euphony. From Wordnik.com. [Diocese | Linguism] Reference
(pronunciation or syllabification) in the headword at the expense of its clean appearance. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4] Reference
My immediate purpose is to lead you to place in juxta-position, that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tales.] Reference
My immediate purpose is to lead you to place in juxtaposition, that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken, with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Murders in the Rue Morgue] Reference
My immediate purpose is to lead you to place in juxta-position, that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken, with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected. ". From Wordnik.com. [krimiblog.de] Reference
"If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [Tales.] Reference
"If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of a strength superhuman, an agility astounding, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [krimiblog.de] Reference
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