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Figure 2

From: An open-source rule-based syllabification tool for Brazilian Portuguese

Figure 2

Block diagram of the developed syllabification tool. There is a set of splitting rules, and a hierarchical order of application is assumed, at the moment the algorithm identifies a vowel. First, the more specific rules are considered until a general case rule (rule 20) is reached, which restarts the process. Note that some rules proposed by [11] were improved during the research, like the rule 2, as described below.

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