Hi again,

in the use of this wonderful implementation of your program, I spotted a behavior which someone (depends on who), could consider erratic.

Of course, it is comprehensible that the management of this letter represents a challenge as it arise mostly of foreign terms. Nevertheless, in the cases that I will present here, I believe there is an easy, simple and non-debatable way of syllabify these words, even in the case where the pronunciation is borrowed from other language too.

Note: DRAE stands for Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (some of the terms have an alternative writing adapted to the Spanish language, like bypass (baipás) or curry (curri) ).

First we have the errors raised when the 'y' is in the middle of two consonants:

pylabeador.syllabify('Tytonidae') #Family of birds, could have use Tyto too
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
raise HyphenatorError("Nucleus expects a vowel!", word)
...

pylabeador.syllabify('bypass') #Appears in DRAE
raise HyphenatorError("Nucleus expects a vowel!", word)

pylabeador.syllabify('byroniano') #Appears in DRAE
raise HyphenatorError("Nucleus expects a vowel!", word)

On the other hand we have (this one, I reckon, could use a debate)

pylabeador.syllabify('byte') #Appears in DRAE
raise HyphenatorError("Nucleus expects a vowel!", word)

Yes, but one may think that only one syllable pronounced like 'bait'
(in Spanish), is the correct way to proceed. My personal point of view is that this 'y' should behave like an 'i' and in Spanish, two syllables arises.

Second, its behaviour when proceeded of 'rr':

pylabeador.syllabify('curry') #Appears in DRAE
['cur', 'ry']

Which, I do not know, could be related to...

Third:

pylabeador.syllabify('cónyuge') #Appears in DRAE, very common word
['có', 'nyu', 'ge']

It is interesting that this one, possibly due to the presence of two strong vowels 'oa', works fine since the hyphenation was broken in such a way that it matches a vowel each consonant (d and y):

pylabeador.syllabify('coadyuvar') #Appears in DRAE
['co', 'ad', 'yu', 'var']

I excuse myself for not providing better explanations of the observed behaviour. I hope that this examples could be helpful for you.

Thank you very much for your work,
M.

Hello there,

I think that I spotted a bug in the fantastic pylabeador program. I'll write some self-explaining examples below where you can appreciate that it does not manage the 'ch' in the right way if it is preceded by a consonant.

pylabeador.syllabify('jarcha')
['jarc', 'ha']
pylabeador.syllabify('parche')
['parc', 'he']
pylabeador.syllabify('elche')
['elc', 'he']
pylabeador.syllabify('colcha')
['colc', 'ha']
pylabeador.syllabify('deschapar')
['desc', 'ha', 'par']

Again, thank you for your effort and congratulations for such an interesting work.

M

In [1]: import pylabeador

In [2]: pylabeador.syllabify_with_details("Paraguay").stressed
Out[2]: 1

The stressed syllable is the last one, so the result should be 2 (0-based).

It also wrongly reports that in the word estoy the stress in the first syllable.

When you do the following:

from pylabeador import syllabify_with_details

word = syllabify_with_details("melón")
print(word.accented)
print(word.stressed)

The accented 'counter' starts from 0 and the stressed 'counter' starts from 1.

From a user point of view maybe it has more sense that in both cases the counter starts from one.

If you agree I can prepare a PR fixing this.

Hi again, I spotted another bug in the pylabeador program. I'll leave some self-explaining examples below about de management of 'c'+consonant (h seems to work fine).

pylabeador.syllabify('ocre')
['oc', 're']
pylabeador.syllabify('chacra')
['chac', 'ra']
pylabeador.syllabify('Tecla')
['Tec', 'la']
pylabeador.syllabify('aclimatar')
['ac', 'li', 'ma', 'tar']

Thank you very much for your work.
M

I was thinking in the addition of a new option for the command line. Something like:

$ pylabeador --full torpedo

That provides a more complete output than just ['tor', 'pe', 'do'].

If you agree i can implement this this week and then you can prepare a new release. If you don't like the enhancement just close it and prepare the new release 👍