Ummm...
What exactly is a mora?
hmm?
-M
dirk elzinga wrote:
>
> Languages with regular stress systems (meaning that stress is
> predictably placed in a particular place) usually reckon stress
> by counting something -- typically syllables or morae. If a
> language changed what it counted from morae to syllables or vice
> versa, then the result would be a change in stress patterns.
> The neutralization of a long/short vowel distinction could
> trigger a change from mora to syllable counting, for instance.
>