Wielowarstwowy model podziału wyrazów ortograficznych języka polskiego na sylaby

Abstract

This paper presents a model for the syllabification of Polish words written in orthographic form. It raises some significant issues related to syllabification, including the linguistic definition of a syllable and certain phonological principles: the Sonority Sequencing Principle and the Maximal Onset Principle. The article describes the steps of a designed syllabification procedure. This procedure provides four layers of syllable boundary placement. The first layer is related to the morphological structure of the word (it concerns mainly boundaries between a prefix and a stem). The structure of the rules in the first layer is based on the initial and final strings in words. The goal of the second layer is to put boundaries between syllable nuclei. The next layer modifies the boundaries that result from the phonological principles. The last layer places boundaries resulting from the phonological principles. Rules applied earlier mask rules on the succeeding layers. The article also presents a structure of rules based on probability. A description of static syllabification systems is also given — these work much faster, but it is not possible to modify the rules associated with them. The last described feature of the presented solution is the ability to create generative systems.