From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-07T06:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: STRING MANIPULATION: Marking syllables

On 8/6/05, basi <basi_lio@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How might one express the following syllabification rules:
> 1. A c(c)v sequence is a syllable if followed by a cv sequence
[...]
> 2. A c(c)vc sequence is a syllable if followed by a c

There are a couple of syntax (human language syntax) libraries
mentioned on RAA; don't remember the names offhand. For hyphenation
(not *quite* the same, mind you), you can always use Text::Hyphen.

With a regexp, I'd do those as:

    # Note: this counts y as both vowel and consonant. This may not
    # always result in correct syllable identification.
  VOWELS      = V = %r{[aieouy]}i
  CONSONANTS  = C = %r{[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]}i
  c_opc_v   = %r{#{C}#{C}?#{V}}
  c_opc_v_c = %r{#{C}#{C}?#{V}#{C}}

There are other rules, I'm sure, because these two rules could be,
at least theoretically, converted into c(c)v(c).

-austin
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