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phonology - What is a mora? - Linguistics Stack Exchange What is a mora? I tried to read the Wikipedia article that answers this question, but found it difficult to understand Ditto with the related LSE question: Is the concept of syllables pronuncia
The relationship between Mora-timed languages, long vowels and . . . The following linguistic forum also recognizes that Lithuanian is a Mora-timed language, just like classical Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Japanese Therefore, in Balto-Slavo-Germanic, are there more Mora-timed languages (whether historical or modern)? My second doubt is the relationship between Mora-timed and quantitative verse
Mora County, NM population by year, race, more | USAFacts 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
Is syllable-timing in Indo-Aryan languages due to contact with . . . Some Dravidian languages, such as Tamil and Telugu, are mora-timed, which in recent research on speech rhythm has been called super-syllable-timed 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
phonology - What is the explanatory value of moras: why do we need . . . But I am not sure I understand what kind of unit a mora is and what stress timing have to do with light, heavy, superheavy (sounds like a Starbucks-inspired naming scheme: why not just light medium heavy?!) Is there an example from Generative Phonology that explains this? Sometimes all this theoretical stuff confuses me Maybe I overthink it
Does Japanese always emphasize the first syllable? The pitch may fall across both morae, or mostly on one or the other (depending on the sequence of sounds)—that is, the first mora may end with a high falling pitch, or the second may begin with a (low) falling pitch, but the first mora will be considered accented regardless The Japanese describe this as 頭高 atamadaka (literally, "head-high")
syllables - Is Swahili a Mora-counting language like Japanese . . . So, is swahili (and many other Bantu languages) actually mora-counting language?? 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?
Linguistic typology of isochrony and intonation The idea that language timing can be stress, syllable or mora is highly simplified, and it is actually false if taken to refer to phonetic facts about syllable length in actual speech In real life, even in so-called "syllable-timed" or "mora-timed" languages, syllables or morae are often realized with measurably different lengths; and in so-called "stress timed" languages, the delay between
Newest syllable-timing Questions - Linguistics Stack Exchange The relationship between Mora-timed languages, long vowels and quantitative verse, also the status of Iranian and Balto-Slavo-Germanic? In an anthropological forum, there was once a view that because Latin, Greek, Sanskrit (also Celtic IIRC) are Mora-timed, they are divided into one subgroup