Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 1:49 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > So, if I understand you correctly, in those languages, one cannot
> > predict if a word like, say, _kasta_ would be two or three morae? Is
> > that correct?
>
> Right. Looking at a single word like this one, you can tell extremely little
> about the moraicity
I think you misunderstood my question. What I meant was, would a
knowledge of the language's structure allow you to predict whether
_kasta_ would be two or three morae? In other words, would a speaker of
this language know whether it would be two or three morae?
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