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SEEU Review vol. 5 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

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<strong>SEEU</strong> <strong>Review</strong> Volume 5, No. 2, 2009<br />

Automatic Syllable Identification for the<br />

Albanian Language<br />

Mentor Hamiti<br />

Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies, <strong>South</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>European</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong><br />

Ilindenska bb, 1200 Tetovo, R. of Macedonia<br />

m.hamiti@seeu.edu.mk<br />

Visar Shehu<br />

Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies, <strong>South</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>European</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong><br />

Ilindenska bb, 1200 Tetovo, R. of Macedonia<br />

v.shehu@seeu.edu.mk<br />

Agni Dika<br />

Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies, <strong>South</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>European</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong><br />

Ilindenska bb, 1200 Tetovo, R. of Macedonia<br />

agnidika@yahoo.com<br />

Abstract<br />

Syllables are treated as an elementary concept in phonetics and<br />

phonology. They represent the smallest individual phonetical unit. They are<br />

also phonological units containg phonems carrying prosodic elements. In<br />

practice it is not difficult to differentiate syllables on a word or phrase, even<br />

without knowing their meaning. However, theoretical explanation of their<br />

nature and limitations is considered as one of the most difficult problems in<br />

lingual phonetics.<br />

In principle it is impossible to talk about a universal method of separating<br />

words or phrases into syllables. This happens because there is not a single<br />

definition of the notion syllable. They are only defined as part of words,<br />

constituted of a single vowel or a group of phonems focused around a group<br />

of vowels. In most cases, when syllables appear alone they are not even a<br />

meaningfull unit. Grouping them will define the meaning of a word. Later,<br />

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