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Re: What is a syllable?

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From: Bengt G{llmo, L M Ericsson, Stoc...
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 20:32
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gm115@emu.pmms.cam.ac.uk (Gabor Megyesi) writes:

>Hungarian has a fairly easy rule for syllabification. If a word is
>compound, it is first split into its constituent parts. A simple word is
>split into as many syllables as there are vowels in it, and if there are
>consonants between two vowels, the last one belongs to the second vowel,
>the rest to the first. It is simple, it works, and I find the different
>rules in other languages often confusing.

That is exactly the rules I have learnt in Swedish.

Bengt
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