syllabication
- noun
- /ˌsɪləbəˈkeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
silabificación
- Practicing syllabication can improve your spelling skills by making it easier to identify how words are constructed.
Examples
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Other word attack skills also need developing, such as syllabication skills to unlock new words.
Academic text (1995) -
Other forms of poetry with no rhyme or syllabication include free verse and diamantes.
Academic text (1993) -
Unrhymed verse stressing syllabication might include haiku, tanka, and septolets.
Academic text (1993) -
These students may benefit from explicit instruction in syllabication strategies designed to improve reading of these complicated, often content-specific words (Bhattacharya & Ehri, 2004).
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Accordingly, Mrs. Silverman decides to (a) review syllabication strategies, and (b) provide practice decoding vowel-team syllables in isolation, within sentences, and within connected text.
Academic text (2013) -
This instruction typically involves teaching students the rules of syllabication and a flexible strategy to break words into meaningful parts, such as identifying prefixes, suffixes, and affixes (Archer et al., 2003).
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The teacher demonstrated the process of syllabication by breaking the word 'banana' into three parts: ba-na-na.
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Learning syllabication helps students read more fluently by understanding how to split words into their individual syllables.
Synonyms
The act of dividing words into parts that each have one vowel sound
How Formal
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
syllabication = syllabicate (transparent) = syllabicate + ion
Formed by nominalizing the verb 'syllabicate' with the suffix '-ion'; the meaning 'the act or process of dividing into syllables' follows directly from the verb.
Etymology
Syllabication comes from syllable, a word from Greek that meant 'held together'. So syllabication is the process of dividing words into those small sound parts called syllables.
