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 ... More @Wikipedia
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