- and is
called monomoraic,
while a long
vowel contains two and is
called bimoraic. Extra-long
syllables with
three morae (trimoraic) are
relatively rare...
- the
pharyngeal vowels, /aˤ oˤ/o͜aˤ/,
occur as the
first vowel (V1) of
bimoraic roots, CVCV, CVV, and CVN,
though the
modal vowels are
reduced to /a e...
-
Diphthongs First element Short (monomoraic) Long (
bimoraic)
Close iy̯ iːy̯ Mid eo̯ eːo̯ Open æɑ̯ æːɑ̯...
-
active feature of the system, with /ɒ/, /i/, and /u/
phonologically long or
bimoraic and /æ/, /e/, and /o/
phonologically short or monomoraic.
There are also...
- all moras, but at the same time
reduced to
exclude all
other syllables.
Bimoraic syllables are now
written with two letters, as in ****anese: diphthongs...
-
distinguished from
bimoraic vowels by
their outcomes in
attested Germanic languages: word-final
trimoraic vowels remained long
vowels while bimoraic vowels developed...
- up the same
amount of time as
short vowels,
while long
diphthongs were
bimoraic, the same as long vowels. (This is much like the
situation in Old English...
- 227–232. doi:10.1017/S0025100304001756. Blevins,
Juliette (1994). "The
Bimoraic Foot in
Rotuman Phonology and Morphology".
Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (2):...
- etd.lib.ncsu.edu.
Thompson (1959:458–461) Blevins,
Juliette (1994), "The
Bimoraic Foot in
Rotuman Phonology and Morphology",
Oceanic Linguistics, 33 (2):...
- For instance, in the
Amami dialect Yuwan the word /ʔma/ [ˀma] "horse" is
bimoraic.
Tsuken (Central Okinawan)
restricts glottalization to
glides and the vowels...
