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. 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. 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. Why not just light/medium/heavy?!) is there an example from generative phonology that explains this Sometimes all this theoretical stuff confuses me Is there a standard representation that combines onset, nucleus, coda with mora 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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