Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
morae (units measuring syllables in poetry).
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word moraic.
Examples
-
Are all writing systems in which a syllable is written with two symbols now called moraic?
-
It seems now that it is called moraic, whether it is a mora-timed language or not.
-
The situation's then very similar to Japanese kana, which is the main thing I've heard called a moraic script.
-
Sproat, 2000, makes a reference to Horodeck, 1987, p.33 for labeling Japanese a "moraic" writing system.
-
I've never seen Japanese described as an example of this kind of compensatory gemination after all, the coda consonant /N/ is moraic, but rather as an example of vowel devoicing.
-
But siccing apocope on (C)VCV, (C)VC should be an acceptable outcome, if coda consonants count as moraic.
-
Tropylium: "But getting CVCC requires either onset consonants - or coda consonant clusters, but not single consonants - to be moraic, and this to be preferred over vowel length."
-
Thus in Czech, liquids are treated as moraic and both syllables show normal sonority peaks headed by the most sonorant phoneme of the group (i.e. s PIE *ḱunós 'of the dog') can only be a declined noun based on its form (because of its zerograded root *kun-) and at this stage, no derivative of "dog" can start with *kun- in the nominative or accusative cases either.
-
But getting CVCC requires either onset consonants - or coda consonant clusters, but not single consonants - to be moraic, and this to be preferred over vowel length.
-
On the other hand, syllabicity trumps moraic weight in some non-standard dialects.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.