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...

The ages, races, and population density of Mora County, New Mexico tell a story. Understand the shifts in demographic trends with these charts visualizing decades of population data.

Jan 24, 2023 · 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 …

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 …

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 …

Nov 8, 2019 · 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 …

Dec 3, 2016 · 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: …

May 22, 2017 · Is there a standard representation that combines onset, nucleus, coda with mora? That would help me visualize the prosodic hierarchy better, because I could put something …

Sep 17, 2021 · If mora are potentially sufficient to describe language, then what do syllables add, in theory? Ask Question Asked 4 years, 1 month ago Modified 3 years, 11 months ago

The structure of English and Japanese syllables are so different that it's impossible to count the mora weight of every possible English syllable using the Japanese criteria of mora counting. …