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

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Mangiat wrote:

> Roger Mills 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

(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.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

"The strong craving for a simple formula
has been the undoing of linguists."               - Edward Sapir

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