- phonology - What is a mora? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Roughly, a mora is half a heavy syllable, or all of a light one -- in languages where syllables are classed as open short light (1 mora) or closed long heavy (2 morae) Example: regular Classical Latin stress goes on the third mora from the end of the word; regular Spanish stress goes on the second mora from the end (with some special
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- phonology - What is the explanatory value of moras: why do we need . . .
In Arabic, coda consonants do; in Mongolian, they don't Following the classical "long vowels are equivalent to two vowels" analysis, a mora is thus "vowel", plus optionally "one coda consonant" There are a number of problems that led to widespread adoption of moraic theory
- 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 That does not necessarily imply anything about production or perception, unless you subscribe to a theory where representational objects necessarily have
- phonology - If mora are potentially sufficient to describe language . . .
The question that exists in phonological theory regarding syllables, moras and so forth is, what is the required collection of suprasegmental units required to describe human language phonological grammars Practically speaking, this means, "do we need all of the set {skeletal position, mora, onset, rhyme, nucleus, coda, margin, syllable}?"
- Linguistic typology of isochrony and intonation
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
- syllables - Is Swahili a Mora-counting language like Japanese . . .
The term "mora counting" has a specific technical meaning, based on the connection between duration and certain linguistic units (moras, syllables, stress feet) In a so-called syllable-timed language, the duration of an word best correlates with the number of syllables in the word
- The relationship between Mora-timed languages, long vowels and . . .
The concept "mora" is widely invoked as a device for making sense of this typology First, it is presumed that the segmental concept "long" is to be represented with a distinctive mora (a vowel with two moras is long and a short vowel has only one; a long consonant has a mora and a short consonant has none) See Morén 1999 for discussion That
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