It separates into syllables all Spanish words and remarks the stressed syllable. It takes into account the general rules of hyphenation, sequence of consonants, diphthongs, triphthongs, hiatuses, the letter 'h', the prefixes and the suffix -mente and more.

Syllabifier-TIP is an application which performs the syllabification of any Spanish word. Syllabifier-TIP uses a separator of syllables based on orthographic criteria which is complemented with a morphological analysis tool and a database of lexical-semantics relationships in order to perform “intelligent” division by components, looking at first for the existence of the word and then for the presence of affixes that can influence the syllabification. The morphological tool recognizes more than 4 millions of words. The database of lexical-semantics keeps over eighty thousand relationships.

This application is useful to learn to separate a word into syllables, helps the pronunciation of words in Spanish.

Syllabifier-TIP is aware of the general hyphenation rules available at the sources listed below:

☆ NGLE-RAE-2009. Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Espasa Calpe (2009)
☆ DPD-RAE-2005. Diccionario panhispánico de dudas de la Real Academia Española - 1ª edición (2005)
☆ Ortografía de la Lengua Española, edición revisada por las Academias de la Lengua Española y publicada por la Real Academia Española (1999).

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TIP - Text & Information Processing
Department of Information and Systems
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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