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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Syllable Division

Hey there. My name is Marcelo and I'm from Brazil. I'm trying to study English syllable division and I'd like to know if you native speakers study it when at school. If you do so, How do you learn it?
Isn't it related to the sounds of the words? Especially vowel sounds? How do you recognize them before dividing?
  

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A syllable has one vowel sound. If you look in a good dictionary, you can see how words are divided into syllables. The dictionary also has stress marks to show which syllable is spoken with more emphasis than the others.

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  • A syllable has one vowel sound.
  • If you look in a good dictionary, you can see how words are divided into syllables.
  • The dictionary also has stress marks to show which syllable is spoken with more emphasis than the others.
  • For example: dic ' -tion-a-ry
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A syllable has one vowel sound.
If you look in a good dictionary, you can see how words are divided into syllables. The dictionary also has stress marks to show which syllable is spoken with more emphasis than the others.

For example: dic'-tion-a-ry
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