Re: THEORY: final features, moras, and roots [was: it's what I do]

Raymond Brown wrote:
> but not for the possible placement of the
> pitch accent which was conditioned by syllabic nuclei (i.e. vowels) only.
However, in Japanese, the pitch accent is a mixture of syllable and
mora.  In the Tokyo dialect, the first two morae of a word must be
different pitches, even they're the same syllable, thus: _kan_ can be
KAn with the meaning "completion", or kaN with the meaning "sense"
(capital letters are for high pitch)

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