And wrote:
> Luca, are you sure you're using a monowidth font in drawing your diagrams?
Excuse me... now I've seen what should be the source of the problems...
> I'm receiving them in plain text encoding, but they're out of alignment.
Does it work now?
irma:dent
|| /\ ||
µµ µµ µµ
\/ \/ \/
s s s
/irma'dent/
> >
> > But what would happen if the _a_ were short???
irmadent
|| /\ ||
µµ µ µµ
\/ | \/
s s s
/irma'dent/
> > What should I do with that mora there in, alone???
>
> What's the problem? the /ma/ is a monomoraic syllable. Stress falls on
> the rightmost bimoraic syllable, viz. /den/.
I thought that since most syllalbes should be (notice: should, this is a
very very rough sketch) bimoraic, it would be odd having also mono-moraic
(or uni-moraic?) syllables.
> BTW, the final /t/, being an onset, could be seen as a kind of
> zero-moraic syllable... [NB I am not a Licensed Phonologist; Dirk is
> our official phonology wonk and guru.]
But you surely know much, much more than I do on this matter...
Luca