English syllable structure (was,for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

Muke Tever wrote:
> A mora is a language-specific unit of syllable time.  In Japanese, for example,
> every _kana_ represented one mora.
Almost, but not quite.  There are the double kana, like _kya_, one mora,
but written with two morae.

> In most languages, I think, onset consonants are not moraic, a short vowel is
> one mora, a long vowel is two moras, and coda consonants are moraic.
Depends on the language.  In some language, codas are moraic, in others
they're not.

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