LINGUIST List 8.1088

Sat Jul 26 1997

FYI: Dictionaries,Syllabification Software

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • JP, Dictionary Links
  • Bill Fisher, Syllabification Software

    Message 1: Dictionary Links

     Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:03:59 -0700
    From: JP <jhpilgeprodigy.net>
    Subject: Dictionary Links


    http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction2.html has several links to dictionares. -JP-

    Message 2: Syllabification Software

     Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:27:43 -0400
    From: Bill Fisher <william.fishernist.gov>
    Subject: Syllabification Software


    A few years ago I wrote some software (C, under Unix) to do English syllable division, and you all are welcome to it, caveat emptor. You can get it via anonymous ftp to 'ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/'

    the two files you should pick up are

    tsylb2-1.1.tar.Z sylbfilt.c

    When you uncompress and de-tar the first, it'll give you a directory structure containing the guts of my syllabification software, which you can install and test out. Look for the "readme" file.

    The second is just a filter version of a matrix program. If you put it into the directory where all the other source code is and just compile it with "gcc sylbfilt.c -o sylbfilt" it should compile o.k. My style is to put comment headers at the beginning of source code module files, so look there if you want to understand more of what the code does. Also "doc" files, of course.

    It implements Kahn's theory of syllabification: ambisyllabic consonants are recognized, some of the syllabifications are stress-sensitive, and different syllabifications may be given for a range of formal/informal speech registers (uncalibrated, so far). It doesn't give you syllable-internal structure, nor higher-level structure: it just marks where syllable boundaries are.

    - Bill Fisher, NIST