Tutorial
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To warm up, type the word *kasa* (house) in the string syllabification 
field and click syllabify. 
The output of the syllabification will be immediately printed in
the output panel on the right.

You may have noted that you used the spelling *kasa*, and not *casa* in the
input. Sylli can be used to divide only phonetic strings into syllables. In
other words, you will have to transcribe the words you want to syllabify into
their phonological form using an ASCII alphabet (a subset of x-Sampa is used
in the `default sonority` ref...). Note that it does not really
matter which alphabet you use for the transcription as long as it is ASCII,
since all symbols have to be specified for their phonological class and
sonority in the sonority files, which are afterwards used by the
syllabification algorithm.

Output
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The option Output determines the form of the output.

str
    returns the string as segments.(input=output)
svg
    converts the segments into their natural class, (S=stop, V=vowel, G=glide, etc).
cvcv
    converts the segments into C (consonant) or V (vowel). 

If you tick Extrasyllabicity off
the output transducer will strip syllable boundaries markers off from the
output. An extrasyllabic segment is defined as any non-syllabic segment (that
is not defined in the sonority file as a V) which constitues the nucleus of a
syllable (it is not flanked by syllable boundaries).
Forvexample *s.tra.no* will be printed as *stra.no*.

Files and Directories
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So far we have used Sylli to divide a string into syllables, but the program
can also be used to syllabify files and directories. In the tabbed window, you
can choose among three kinds of input.

string
    the simplest way to use sylli is just to write the string to syllabify in this form.
 
files
    you can choose or drag and drop as many text files as you want and syllabify them (TIMIT or plain text). You can also manually add a semicolon separated list of files, for example (c\Users\me\file1.txt; c\Users\me\file2.txt).
 
directory
    you choose a directory and sylli will syllabify all text files in that directory. 

By ticking off 'create syl',  Sylli will not output the syllabification in stdout. Instead, it will create a .syl containing the syllabification of each parsed file.

Once all options are set, you can syllabify by clicking the syllabify
button. You can also click the demo button and syllabify a list 
of example words.
This option is particularly usefull when you're trying different sonorities.