Luca:
> 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/
yes but it's a bit squashed
> > > 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.
But then how do you analyse your /ka'sikula/ -- surely four monomoraic
syllables, the stress falling on the antepenult because there is no
bimoraic (dimoraic? -- like you I forget how exactly the greek and latin
are miscegenated in these terms) syllable to its right.
> > 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...
Not really. The nice thing about phonology is that you don't need to know
a lot in order to do it.
--And.