Class: Text_Word

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Text_Word calculates the number of syllables in a word, based off of the number of contiguous vowel groupings in the word and applying matches to detect special cases.

require_once 'Text/Word.php' $word = new Text_Word('word'); $word->numSyllables(); // returns 1

$doubleSyllables = array('/\wlien/', // alien but not lien
                                 '/bl$/',   // syllable
                                 '/io/',    // biography
                                 )

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The special cases of fragments which detect as 1 but should be 2 syllables.

$silentSyllables = array('/\wely$/',    // absolutely but not ely
                                 '/\wion/',
                                 '/iou/',
                                )

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The special cases of fragments which detect as 2 but should be 1 syllables.

$word =

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The word

$_numSyllables =  0

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The number of syllables. This is internal, the value should be accessed through the accessor.

Text_Word (Constructor)   [line 82]

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numSyllables   [line 135]

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_countSpecialSyllables   [line 109]

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_mungeWord   [line 93]

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