Definition of "syllabification" []

• The division of a word into syllables. (noun)

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• "The most important were those involving 'syllabification' - the ability of children to produce well-formed syllables with rapid movements of the jaw and tongue."
• "My late wife, who was Scottish, distinguished the metal from the flattening implement by her syllabification."
• "So, it seems to me that while Metathesis occurred in positions after the stress accent to remedy awkward syllabification, a-Epenthesis the left-to-right insertion of *a occurred in positions *before* the stress accent."