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syllabify verb language specializeduk /sɪˈlæb.ɪ.faɪ/ us /sɪˈlæb.ə.faɪ/ [ I or T ] to form syllables, by dividing words or by combining sounds or letters: In the second task, children were asked to syllabify each word. One way to help these spellers is to syllabify; another is to draw attention to prefixes and suffixes. [ I ] to separate or combine to become a syllable or part of a syllable: They argue that not all cluster types syllabify in the same way. He says that native speakers know instinctively how to syllabify words. Participants in this study syllabified English disyllables in a hyphenation task. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Linguistics: morphology & parts of words -athon affix affixation agglutinate agglutinative analytic contraction interfix ion ism libfix monomorphemic monosyllabic morpheme suffix syllabification synthetic that'd that'll that's
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