have syllables with up to four morae. A prosodic stress system in which moraically heavy syllables are assigned stress is said to have the property of quantity...

the moraic nasal and non-moraic /n/ before a vowel or before /j/: Alternatively, in an analysis that treats syllabification as distinctive, the moraic nasal...

known as kanji (漢字, 'Han characters'), with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters:...

archiphoneme |n|. Many analyses treat it as an additional phoneme /N/, the moraic nasal, though it never contrasts with /n/ or /m/. The consonant system of...

second mora, if the second mora is /R/ (the lengthening mora) or /N/ (the moraic nasal); in these cases, initial lowering has been said to occur only in...

5 gaps and 1 extra character, the current number of distinct kana in a moraic chart in modern Japanese is therefore 46. Some of these gaps have always...

the "compound" tone of Swedish and Norwegian, and ⟨ƞ⟩, once used for the moraic nasal of Japanese – though one remains: ⟨ɧ⟩, used for the sj-sound of Swedish...

favors the descriptive name moraic nasal for the sounds. Historically, the name hatsuon was not used just for the Japanese moraic nasal, but also for ending...

"horse". Similarly, the moraic obstruent /Q/ corresponds to a reduced stop syllable. Contrary to the standard language, the moraic obstruent may occur word...

romanised as n. The structure has led some scholars to label the system moraic, instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms...

allophone, colloquially written in IPA as /N/, is known as the moraic nasal, per the language's moraic structure. Welsh has a set of voiceless nasals, /m̥, n̥...

phonological structure of the languages, contributing to the development of moraic structure in Japanese and the disruption of vowel harmony in Korean. Borrowed...

In the IPA, the letter ⟨ƞ⟩ was used from 1951 to 1976 to transcribe a moraic nasal that is homorganic with a following consonant, but was retired after...

/ɴ/ in cases when a speaker pronounces う at the beginning of a word as a moraic nasal. In katakana only, the dakuten may also be added to the character...

Dreimorengesetz (German: [dʁaɪˈmoːʁən.ɡəˌzɛts]; 'three-mora law') is a linguistic rule proposed by German philologist Hermann Hirt. According to the rule...

あった (a-t-ta) and かいた (ka-i-ta). It is therefore more correctly called a moraic writing system, with syllables consisting of two moras corresponding to...

including a voicing opposition for obstruents, CV(C) syllable structure, moraic rhythm, and pitch accent. However, many individual Ryukyuan languages diverge...

change of /gi/ to moraic [ɲ], /gu/ to moraic [ŋ], and /mu mi bu bi/ to moraic [m], followed by vocalization of moraic [ɲ] to [i] and of moraic [ŋ] and [m] to...

Paris, Classiques Garnier, 314-316 Daiho Kitaoka & Sara Mackenzie. 2021. Moraic Reversal and Realisation: Analysis of a Japanese Language Game. Phonology...

which case it may be transcribed [ˈpɑː̤ɪ]. When both length and tone are moraic, a tone diacritic may appear twice, as in [sáː̀] (falling tone on a long...

is possible that 无 originally represented two distinct sounds, moraic /m/ and moraic /n/ (from MC coda /n/, see below), but they may have been pronounced...

Chinese. Also, as Japanese cannot end words with consonants (except for moraic n), borrowings of Middle Chinese words ending in a stop had a paragoge added...

glottal stop symbol), while the other uses a superscript kana. 4: Hatsuon (moraic n) 5: Sokuon (geminated consonants) 6: Chōon (longer vowels): In conventional...

view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal n. This is illustrated by the Issa haiku below, which contains 17...

"bouncing sound") may refer to: The moraic nasal in the Japanese language N (kana), the character used to represent the moraic nasal This disambiguation page...

syllabified with the onset of the following syllable, which means that the moraic weight of the preceding syllable is left unchanged. For example, tam̆ba...

Consonant phonemes Bilabial Alveolar Post- alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Moraic LEN FOR VOX LEN FOR VOX LEN FOR VOX LEN FOR VOX Nasal mˀ m nˀ n  N Stop...

but also with Vaishnavas and others." The core of the composition is in a moraic metre (मात्राछन्दस्). Scholars on the Indology list confirm it is mātrāsamaka...

1997:46). Both types may arise from speakers' attempts to preserve a word's moraic count. An example from the history of English is the lengthening of vowels...

secondary tones, i.e. combinations of low and high tones, deriving from moraic high tones and from high tone spread. The lowfall tone mainly derives from...

work, and usually comical, Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the moraic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme for a total of 26 morae, making it one of...

syllable, or two light syllables. Adaptation produced long vowels and the moraic nasal /N/, while historical Chinese obstruent codas were represented with...

Dunan: (C (G) ) V1 (V2) (N) C = consonant G = glide [w] or [j] V = vowel N = moraic nasal The onset allows for a single consonant with the occasional presence...

see McCarthy 1979, McCarthy 1981, Steriade 1982, Clements & Keyser 1983), moraic phonology (Hyman 1985, Hayes 1989), the OCP was considered to be relevant...

syllables (with a coda consisting of two or more consonants) or both. In moraic theory, heavy syllables are said to have two moras, while light syllables...

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represented by *ь and *ъ, called yers, become "weak" – that is, subject to moraic shortening – in final position or if they are followed by a vowel other...

weight. A syllable is heavy if it has a long vowel or a moraic coda; otherwise it is light. A moraic coda is a non-glottalized sonorant. Thus, /pən/ counts...

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In addition, the /a/ → [æ] rule takes effect again, now outside of the moraic foot, and can occur with a following /i/ and both /ɛ/. Also, /a/ becomes...

which eliminates the -mm- forms in favor of -nm-. Moraic n, ん, can be entered as nn, n or n'. While moraic n can be typed in simply as n in some cases, in...

pronounced as affricates [dz, dʑ] in word-initial positions and after the moraic nasal /N/ (pronounced [n] before [dz] and [ɲ] before [dʑ]) or the sokuon...

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marks to distinguish phonological changes, such as the assimilation of the moraic nasal /ɴ/ (see Japanese phonology). JSL is a romanization system based on...

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languages additional stress tends to be placed on syllables that are longer (moraically heavy). Prosodic stress is also often used pragmatically to emphasize...

coda consisting of two or more consonants) as superheavy syllables. In moraic theory, heavy syllables are analyzed as containing two morae, light syllables...

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Izumi, which in most mainland dialects is merely a variant of (w)a after a moraic nasal. When a word is followed by a particle that starts with a vowel (such...

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that if the Sino-Japanese stem contains a moraic obstruent as in kussuru (屈する; くっする, /kɯQsɯɾɯ/), a moraic nasal as in hansuru (反する; はんする, /haNsuru/)...

of h in loanwords from the Sinitic languages in two environments: after moraic /N/ (sanpai), and when geminated (Nippon). Medial /ɸ/ became [w] before...

'grain', *pinsa > OJ piza > MJ hiza 'knee'. These nasals are unrelated to the moraic nasal of later forms of Japonic, which derive from contractions or borrowings...

consonants, long vowels and diphthongs are all bimoraic, and codas are moraic as well, so that e.g. ssam is three moras ([s̩sam̩]. A phonological word...

"Sonority and Syllable Structure in American Sign Language" (1992) proposed a moraic approach to ASL syllable structure and explored analogies between movement/position...

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some languages can target just part of a syllable, if the syllable is bi-moraic. Thus in Luganda, in the word Abagânda "Baganda people" the accent is considered...

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nasalizations of words. Unlike Standard Yoruba, where nouns do not begin with moraic nasals, both vowels and consonantal moras may begin nouns in Onko Yoruba...

University Press. pp. 120–123. ISBN 978-0-521-63751-0. Lee, Youngjoo (2001). "A Moraic Account of Liquid Alternation in Korean" (PDF). Rutgers Optimality Archive...

like heavy syllables, it is probable that syllable-final sonorants were moraic, but obstruents in the same position were not. Chronologically, this sound...

Consonant phonemes Bilabial Alveolar Post- alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Moraic Nasal mˀ m nˀ n  Q N Stop pʰ b tʰ t˭ d kʰ k˭ ɡ ʔ Affricate t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ˭ dz...

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closer to [w̃]. Japanese 三位 / san'i [sɑ̃ɰ̃ːi] 'third rank' Syllable-final moraic nasal realization; broadly described as dorso-velar, though exact placement...

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(2012-09-25). "Dialectal gemination in Finnish: Phonetics/phonology interplay in moraic theory". Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. ISSN 1718-3510. Ikola, Osmo...

the Kagoshima dialect) preserve the distinction. Modern Japanese has the moraic nasal ん (n), which can represent a variety of sounds depending on what sounds...

syllables in underived forms are assumed to be associated with a basic moraic trochaic foot [μ μ]σ , e.g. bˈil 'car' (stress marked as (ˈ)). More whole-word...

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are extraprosodic, meaning that they are simply not counting towards the moraic weight of the syllable to which they belong. This accounts for the resurfacing...

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very saliently in many Gorum and Sora words. In Sora, a lexical noun or bi-moraic free-standing form usually contains a monosyllabic root or combining form...

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Carrier syllabics Script type graphically moraic alphabet Creator Adrien-Gabriel Morice Period Created in 1885, with its usage beginning to fade in the...

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many varieties of Ryukyuan. Long vowels are often shortened before the moraic nasal. Following /s/, /z/, and /t͡s/, underlying /u/ neutralizes to [ɨ]...

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personal name, Bush + -sta → Bushista 'about Bush' (elative case). Finnish has moraic consonants: l, h and n are of interest. In Standard Finnish, they are slightly...

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independent of phonation type or supraglottal articulation. Furthermore, mono-moraic (short syllable) glides from any register to any other register were phonotactically...

vowel of the verb or become a moraic obstruent, while for nasal stems it reduces to a moraic nasal and for obstruents, a moraic obstruent. This applies to...

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all CVCC and CVCVC nouns by using an algorithm that analyses syllables in moraic trochees. Arabic has two genders (جِنْسٌ ǧins): masculine (مُذَكَّرٌ muḏakkar)...

distinct types of syllables (morae) involving vowels alone and the hatsuon (moraic nasal). For syllables consisting of a glottal stop plus a vowel, such as...

word. It falls on the penultimate vowel, or on the penultimate mora if a moraic analysis is adopted. That is, a final heavy syllable (double vowel) receives...

Consonant phonemes Bilabial Alveolar Post- alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Moraic Nasal m n  Q N Stop p b t d k ɡ ʔ Affricate t͡ʃ Fricative s z h Approximant...

labial–palatal approximant ɥ ƞ n with long right leg moraic nasal (hatsuon) m, ɰ̃, ɴ, etc. Intended for the moraic nasal of Japanese; withdrawn 1976. Now often...

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following onset). Short vowels are so because a following consonant takes a moraic slot; such syllables tend to be slightly longer. størstur, vatn, vatnið...

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of unique Japanese phonemes like the geminate consonant (促音, sokuon) and moraic nasal (撥音, hatsuon). In a 2020 survey titled "Three Vocaloid Songs Chosen...

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than moraic nasal /ɴ/, as Japanese lacks syllable-final consonants. Suprasegmental features Tendency to reanalyze English words according to moraic timing...

or glottal stop. These bear some similarities to the Japanese moraic nasal ん and moraic obstruent sokuon っ. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is the realisation of...

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Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian have a distinctive moraic chroneme as a phoneme (also arguably called archiphoneme). For example,...

(subscription required) Belete, Ephrem (2011). The syllable of Kistane: A moraic approach. Addis Ababa University. Cohen, Marcel, Etudes d'éthiopien méridional...

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disuse": ⟨◌̇⟩ for palatalization. ⟨ƾ, ƻ⟩ for [t͡s, d͡z]. ⟨ƞ⟩ for the Japanese moraic nasal. ⟨σ, ƍ, ƪ, ƺ⟩ for labialized [θ, ð, ʃ, ʒ]. ⟨◌̢⟩ for r-colouring, as...

likely to affect a Sino-Japanese binom where the first root ends in the moraic nasal /N/ and the second root end in a voiceless obstruent, although it...

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syllable’s duration will correspond to the amount of vowels, reflecting a moraic structure also common in Japanese. Often in the Paumarí language, when an...

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the number expected if there are two possible tones on each mora, with moraic N carrying tone, though their contours are not simple juxtapositions of...

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"Poirot"). Although a syllable-final /n/ is typically transcribed using the moraic ン n, ン is used in French to transcribe nasalized vowels, so French words...

Stops in Polish", Linguistic Inquiry, 25 (1994), 119-143 "Skeletal versus Moraic Representations in Slovak", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 11 (1993)...

Passive sentences in Picuris. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, 26, 34-48. Stress, length, and moraic trochees in Northern Tiwa Picurís...

(4): 227. JSTOR 41864402. Saeed (1992), p. 112. Orwin, Martin (1996). "A Moraic Model of the Prosodic Phonology of Somali". In Hayward, R. J.; Lewis, I...

These meters may have a prescribed number of morae per quarter or per moraic foot (mātrāgaṇa) within a quarter. A mora (mātre) is defined as a unit of...

2: 82–95. Firew Girma Worku (2012) The Syllable Structure of Gawwada: A Moraic Model Representations. ISBN 9783846582763 Ikkito Poko ʕalena = Ale Alphabet:...

South Carolina, 1996, p. 191-205. Kang, Seok-Keun, and Chin-Woo Kim. "A Moraic Account of Consonant Cluster Simplification in Korean." Proceedings of the...

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(whether word-internally or -externally), the consonant changes to one of the moraic phonemes /Q/ or /N/, the high vowel is deleted, and the vowel or semivowel...

88. Kozasa, Tomoko (2000). G. Sibley, N. Ochner and K. Russell (ed.). “Moraic Tetrameter in Japanese Poetry”. Proceedings 2000: Selected Papers from the...

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