syllabization

English

Alternative forms

• syllabisation

Noun

syllabization (countable and uncountable, plural syllabizations)

1. Synonym of syllabification
   • 1838 June 17, W. H. Inglis, “Poems by James Walter, employed in the Episcopal Church for the British Embassy and Residents in Paris. Paris, 1837.”, in The London and Paris Observer, number 685, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, page 374:

     Poetry at large, or as composed of rhythm, rhyme, versification, and perhaps syllabization, may be said to differ from prose, as what is sung does from what is said.

   • 1903, William Leon Dawson, The Birds of Ohio: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 Species of Birds Found in the State, Columbus, Ohio: The Wheaton Publishing Co., page 97:

     The following syllabizations may serve to recall a few of the leading forms: 1. Ché-pêw, ché-pêw, wé-oo, wé-oo, wé-oo.

   • 1980, Linda R. Waugh, C. H. van Schooneveld, The Melody of Language, Baltimore, Md.: University Park Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     I do not wish to maintain that no scholars have recognized variation in syllabization—on the contrary, expressions like “mostly” or “more often than” and discussions of different syllabizations in different styles can be cited—but only wish to point out that the frameworks of such analysts absolutely rule out such comments as invalid, since the frameworks are static and idiolectal (in every case known to me).