- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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between 'stress-timed' and 'syllable-timed' languages by Peter Roach However the preamble to that paper states it is out-of-date What that means with respect to the definitions it puts forward, I don't know
- 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
- phonology - Does the analysis of syllables via mora imply that syllable . . .
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
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