Mora Variants

Shreyas Sampat wrote:
>Incidentally, is mora a purely Japanese term? Does it have the same definition
>for all languages, or do each lang's mora have different tendencies?  I take
>the accepted Japanese definition to be mora: (syllable or syllabic consonant.
>long vowels are two mora.)  Are other Japanese poetic styles also related to
>mora-count, or are there also other styles?
From what I understand, Greek and Latin stress rules are dictated by
mora count.

A similar thing can be said of Danish if a radically new interpretation
presented by Hans Basbøll is accepted. I haven't read his essay yet, but
from what I gather, Danish stød is a manifestion of syllables with two
morae. Something where syllables that end with a long vowel followed by
a consonant or that underlyingly end in two (or more) consonants count
as two morae syllables (heavy syllables), and if other conditions are
met, all two-morae syllables have stød. So in Danish, a mora does not
follow the Japanese shape CV or V. In fact, Danish syllable structure is
quite complicated.

ObConlang: In Boreanesian, mora count is an integral part of its prosody
and phonotactics. There are two types, onset and offset morae. Onset morae
start a syllable while offset morae end a syllable. There is also a
constraint that dictates that an onset mora must always be followed by
another mora. The result are words that are composed of and always end in
a heavy syllable, and where each heavy syllable is optionally preceded by
a number of minor syllables.

-kristian- 8)