Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, etc.

Here you have your syllables back:

--- An/dre/as Jo/hans/son <and/jo/@/FREE/./F/R> wrote:
> Years / la/ter, as / I / be/gan / to / de/ve/lop /an
/ in/de/pen/dent / in/te/rest / in / lan/gua/ge, / and
/ star/ted / rea/ding / books / on /  the / sub/ject,
/ I / re/a/li/zed / that / the / con/cept / of /
syl/la/ble / was / sup/po/sed / to / ap/ply / not /
me/re/ly / to / wri/ting, / but / al/so / to /
pro/nun/cia/tion! / (In / Swe/dish, / li/ke /
Eng/lish, / ter/mi/no/lo/gy.)
>
>
>   An/dre/as
True, there may be some differences between written
and oral syllables. For ex, "lan/gua/ge" (written)
could be treated as lan/guage (oral), me/re/ly as
mere/ly, and realized as re/a/lized. Anyway, a
computer program can rather easily cut any text into
syllables, provided you give him the rules applying
for the language you consider. It will be easier than
translating automatically the same text into phonetic
! (at least for English and French).

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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