- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- What is the difference between syllable-timing and stress-timing?
The only article I can seem to find a full copy of is On the distinction between 'stress-timed' and 'syllable-timed' languages by Peter Roach However the preamble to that paper states it is out-of-date What that means with respect to the definitions it puts forward, I don't know
- 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-mora syllables don't exist in Japanese In other
- phonology - Whats the evidence for and against isochrony . . .
The earlier literature on the topic assumed there are rhythm classes, i e discreet sets of languages, either syllable-timed or stress-timed (and mora-timing fit in a bit awkwardly as a third group)
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