Re: R: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

Dirk wrote:

> > > How is "foot" defined?
> >
> > Well... In the following exemples -man- and -siku-, despite the former
> > monosyllabic and the latter disyllabic, are two feet; each of them
contains
> > two morae. The stress, when falling on a foot, falls on its left-most
> > mora: -man- is /'man/, not /ma'n=/, -siku- is /'siku/, not /si'ku/.
>
> <blink> Oh! So a bimoraic foot can be spread out over two
> syllables:
>
>               F
>              / \
>     m m   m m   m m
>     | |   | |   | |
>     i r m a n d e n
>     |/   \|/   \|/
>     s     s     s

Wait, wait! I don't see it!

ir: two morae - 1 syllable
man: two morae - 1 syllable (the stressed one)
den: two morae - 1 syllable (the last syllable doesn't count, however, for
stress assignment, unless it contains a long vowel or a diphthong).

Luca

> (The diagram assumes that onsets are not moraic.)
>
> The only other language I know of which does this is Kaibab
> Southern Paiute, as described by Edward Sapir.