A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door').

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door').

Otherwise, the syllable boundary is placed between a sequence of two consonants. This rule applies after the above rules have applied. There are three rules dealing with special sequences: an alveolar ...

The rules for determining syllable boundaries should be applied in the following order. From this order better generalizations can be made. The ordering goes from the more specific to the less ...

First, let’s talk about syllables. A syllable is a single sound that has a vowel. For instance, ‘sixteen’ has two syllables, ‘six’ and ‘teen’ so does ‘sixty’: ‘six’ and ‘ty’.