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.
A mora is basically a unit of syllabic weight used in the analysis of a language, that may or may not constitute a full syllable on its own A single syllable can have one or more morae Typically, the onset (first part) of a syllable is weightless, and thus does not contribute any morae to the syllable.
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