- syllable. For example, a
short syllable such as ba
consists of one mora (
monomoraic),
while a long
syllable such as baa
consists of two (bimoraic); extra-long...
-
syllabaries today tend to have
simple phonotactics, with a
predominance of
monomoraic (CV) syllables. For example, the
modern Yi
script is used to
write languages...
-
Diphthongs First element Short (
monomoraic) Long (bimoraic)
Close iy̯ iːy̯ Mid eo̯ eːo̯ Open æɑ̯ æːɑ̯...
-
phonologically long or
bimoraic and /æ/, /e/, and /o/
phonologically short or
monomoraic.
There are also some
studies that
consider quality and
quantity to be...
- top)
Content words must be bimoraic,
unlike function words,
which may be
monomoraic.
Makalero has only
avalent verbs and
divalent verbs.
There are no trivalent...
- so may have a high (HH), low (LL),
rising (LH), or
falling (HL) tone.
Monomoraic lexical roots, such as /cú/ 'mouth', are high-
rather than low-tone by...
- and the
nasal allophonic variant of /u/. The
language also has four
monomoraic diphthongs: /ai/, /au/, /ao/ and /oi/.
These are
distinguished from vowel...
- used in the
formation of this type of hypocoristic: the
bimoraic foot.
Monomoraic (one-mora) feet, also
called "degenerate" feet,
exist in
other contexts...
- syllables,
monomoraic and
bimoraic syllables.
Unstressed syllables,
syllables with
short vowels, and non-sonorant
codas are
considered monomoraic, whereas...
- and [áà].
Unlike Traill,
Naumann does not find a four-way
contrast on
monomoraic grammatical forms in
Eastern ǃXoõ data. In
addition to
lexical tone, Traill...
