syllabicatev.
transitive. To form into syllables. Also intransitive, to form or construct syllables; to divide a word or passage into syllables.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables
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1654 J. Brooksbank Plain Rules Syllabication Eng. Words 27 To Syllabicate, which is to find out a word by its syllables.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl.
1831 J. Boaden Life Mrs. Jordan II. xx. 178 He did not syllabicate, his notion of a word was often caught from vulgar speakers.
1902 H. Bradley Let. 9 Jan. in Corr. Bridges & Bradley (1940) 9 If the Greeks syllabicated like this..a syllable ending in one or more consonants is long.
1971 Language 47 138 Perpetual is syllabicated as per. pety. u. al.
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