Ditto with the related lse question Is the concept of syllables pronuncia. The ages, races, and population density of mora county, new mexico tell a story Understand the shifts in demographic trends with these charts visualizing decades of population data. Why not just light/medium/heavy?!) is there an example from generative phonology that explains this Sometimes all this theoretical stuff confuses me
A mora is an object which allows the possibility of representational contrastiveness, so if a language has short and long vowels, that can be represented via one versus two moras on a vowel. Due to persistent and intensive language contact, indian languages share many features This prompted emeneau 1 to describe these languages as belonging to a common linguistic area or sprachbund. What that means with respect to the definitions it puts forward, i don't know. I mean, i wonder if we can always define morae consistently in swahili or not.it seems like the concept of morae is required to describe accent patterns in swahili, in my opinion But how do you guys think?
That would help me visualize the prosodic hierarchy better, because i could put something beneath the syllable level. If mora are potentially sufficient to describe language, then what do syllables add, in theory Ask question asked 4 years, 1 month ago modified 3 years, 11 months ago
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