syllabism

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Division of a word or phrase into syllables.
• noun Use of syllabic characters in writing.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Theory of or concerning syllables; also, syllabic character; representation of syllables.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The expression of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.