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Bookmark or Share- phonology - What is a mora? - Linguistics Stack ExchangeRoughly, a mora is half a heavy syllable, or all of a light one -- in languages where syllables are classed as open/short/light (1 mora) or closed/long/heavy (2 morae). Example: regular Classical Latin stress goes on the third mora from the end of the word; regular Spanish stress goes on the second mora from the end (with some special ...
- How would a haiku look in English using morae?The structure of English and Japanese syllables are so different that it's impossible to count the mora weight of every possible English syllable using the Japanese criteria of mora counting. E.g., the English 1-syllable word 'string' is perceived by the Japanese as having five syllables of 1 mora each: su-to-ri-n-gu (ストリング), and 5 ...
- The relationship between Mora-timed languages, long vowels and ...The concept "mora" is widely invoked as a device for making sense of this typology. First, it is presumed that the segmental concept "long" is to be represented with a distinctive mora (a vowel with two moras is long and a short vowel has only one; a long consonant has a mora and a short consonant has none). See Morén 1999 for discussion. That ...
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- phonology - What is the explanatory value of moras: why do we need ...In Arabic, coda consonants do; in Mongolian, they don't. Following the classical "long vowels are equivalent to two vowels" analysis, a mora is thus "vowel", plus optionally "one coda consonant". There are a number of problems that led to widespread adoption of moraic theory.
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