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We explore general strategies for finite-state syllabification and describe a specific implementation of a wide-coverage syllabifier for English, as well as outline methods to implement differing ideas encountered in the phonological literature about the English syllable. The syllable is a central phonological unit to which many allophonic variations are sensitive. How a word is syllabified is a non-trivial problem and reliable methods are useful in computational systems that deal with non-orthographic representations of language, for instance phonological research, text-to-speech systems, and speech recognition. The construction strategies for producing syllabifying transducers outlined here are not theory-specific and should be applicable to generalizations made within most phonological frameworks.
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Hulden, M. (2006). Finite-State Syllabification. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Karttunen, L., Karhumäki, J. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780885_10
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