Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 0:50 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Some languages do essentially the same as the above things -- they have
> geminate consonants, or their stresses seem to be affected by coda weight --
> but it doesn't seem to work for all words in the language.
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?
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