Juncture (NLP)

Juncture in NLP refers to the way words and sounds connect or are separated in speech and writing. It helps determine where one word ends and another begins, especially in fluent speech where words flow together. For example, the same sounds can mean different things depending on juncture—"ice cream" versus "I scream." Proper understanding of juncture improves the accuracy of speech recognition, translation, and text parsing by clarifying word boundaries and relationships within continuous language.