A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable...
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as "Mora" Mora (singer) (born 1996), a Puerto Rican singer Mora (surname) Mora, Säter, Sweden Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality Mora Municipality...
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Syllable (redirect from Final (linguistics))
English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant...
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Isochrony (redirect from Mora-timed language)
ways in which a language can divide time are postulated syllable-timed, mora-timed, and stress-timed. Real world languages do not fit quite so easily...
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guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...
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sitz' "appetite", written as si-tz'i). Gemination Length (phonetics) Mora (linguistics) Liddell, H. G., and R. Scott (1996). A Greek-English Lexicon (revised...
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...
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In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". The term is most used...
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Yawa language (redirect from Mora language)
Alternative names are Iau (not the same as Iau language), Mantembu, Mora (not Mora language), Turu, and Yapanani. Yawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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Japanese phonology (section Within a mora)
Arguments against Japanese as a Mora Language" (PDF), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla...
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In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...
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Phonology (redirect from Sound system (linguistics))
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...
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syllable bled in. If both occurred, the syllable was overlong. See Mora (linguistics), which suggests that such overlong syllables are cross-linguistically...
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Kochi Akiko Monō Monster (manga) Montevideo Maru Mooka, Tochigi Mora (linguistics) Mori, Shizuoka Mori Chack Mōri clan Mori Hiromichi Ikue Mori Masahiro...
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Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. See also the Outline of linguistics, the...
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[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis...
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Dreimorengesetz (redirect from Three mora rule)
Dreimorengesetz (German: [dʁaɪˈmoːʁən.ɡəˌzɛts]; 'three-mora law') is a linguistic rule proposed by Hermann Hirt for placing the accent in a Germanic text...
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Japanese pitch accent (category Tone (linguistics))
ISBN 9784385136721. Kubozono, Haruo (1999). "Mora and syllable". In Tsujimura, N. (ed.). The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers....
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Mu (letter) (section Linguistics)
America). In phonology: mora In syntax: μP (mu phrase) can be used as the name for a functional projection. In Celtic linguistics: /μ/ can represent an...
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Syllabaries use graphemes called syllabograms that represent spoken syllables or moras. By contrast, morphographic (or logographic) writing systems use graphemes...
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"national" Swedish with characteristic Dalarna intonation and prosody. In linguistics, one distinguishes between regionally different national languages and...
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or do not have the meanings that they have in standard English. In linguistics, they are classified as pseudo-loanwords or pseudo-anglicisms. Wasei-eigo...
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the mora. Each syllable has a basic mora of the form (C)V but a nasal coda, geminate consonant, or lengthened vowel counts as an additional mora. However...
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Pitch-accent language (category Tone (linguistics))
on the first or the second mora of the word. A long vowel has two moras in Yaqui, and a short vowel or diphthong has one mora. After the accent, the high...
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Optimality theory (redirect from Optimality Theory of Linguistics)
was first applied, the theory is also applicable to other subfields of linguistics (e.g. syntax and semantics). Optimality theory is like other theories...
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Markers". International Journal of American Linguistics. 75 (2): 115–157. doi:10.1086/596592. S2CID 145216002. Mora-Marín, David (2016). "Testing the Proto-Mayan-Mije-Sokean...
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levels out. (That is, one falls on the first mora of the vowel, whereas the other falls on the second mora.) This is unusual because it has been theorized...
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every other mora receives secondary stress. If stress falls on the second mora in a long vowel, the stress is transferred to the first mora in the long...
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Gemination (redirect from Gemination (linguistics))
465-497 Asano, Yoshiteru (1994). "Mora-Based Temporal Adjustments in Japanese" (en). Colorado Research in Linguistics. 13. University of Colorado Boulder...
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words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with relatively simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system,...
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