Faster access than browser!
49 relations: Acute accent, Ancient Greek, Chroneme, Circumflex, Compensatory lengthening, Consonant, Content word, Diphthong, Dreimorengesetz, English language, Eta, Foot (prosody), Gemination, Gilbertese language, Haiku, Hawaiian language, Hiragana, Irish language, Isochrony, James D. McCawley, Japan, Japanese language, Kana, Katakana, Kiribati, Latin, Linguistic Society of America, Luganda, Luganda tones, Metre (poetry), Nagasaki, Old English, On (Japanese prosody), Osaka, Palatalization (phonetics), Phonology, Pitch-accent language, Pluti, Prenasalized consonant, Prosody (linguistics), Sanskrit, Schwa, Slovak language, Stress (linguistics), Syllable, Syllable weight, Tokyo, Vowel length, Yōon.
Acute accent
The acute accent (´) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Acute accent · See more »
Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Ancient Greek · See more »
Chroneme
In linguistics, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Chroneme · See more »
Circumflex
The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Circumflex · See more »
Compensatory lengthening
Compensatory lengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon the loss of a following consonant, usually in the syllable coda, or of a vowel in an adjacent syllable.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Compensatory lengthening · See more »
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Consonant · See more »
Content word
In linguistics content words are words that name objects of reality and their qualities.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Content word · See more »
Diphthong
A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Diphthong · See more »
Dreimorengesetz
Dreimorengesetz ("three-mora rule") is a linguistic rule proposed by Hermann Hirt for placing the accent in a Germanic text.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Dreimorengesetz · See more »
English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and English language · See more »
Eta
Eta (uppercase, lowercase; ἦτα ē̂ta or ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Eta · See more »
Foot (prosody)
The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Foot (prosody) · See more »
Gemination
Gemination, or consonant elongation, is the pronouncing in phonetics of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Gemination · See more »
Gilbertese language
Taetae ni Kiribati or Gilbertese, also Kiribati (sometimes Kiribatese), is a Micronesian language of the Austronesian language family.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Gilbertese language · See more »
Haiku
(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Haiku · See more »
Hawaiian language
The Hawaiian language (Hawaiian: Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Hawaiian language · See more »
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Hiragana · See more »
Irish language
The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Irish language · See more »
Isochrony
Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Isochrony · See more »
James D. McCawley
James David McCawley (March 30, 1938 – April 10, 1999) was a Scottish-American linguist.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and James D. McCawley · See more »
Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Japan · See more »
Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Japanese language · See more »
Kana
are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Kana · See more »
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Katakana · See more »
Kiribati
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati),.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Kiribati · See more »
Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Latin · See more »
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Linguistic Society of America · See more »
Luganda
Luganda, or Ganda (Oluganda), is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than five million Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the capital Kampala of Uganda.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Luganda · See more »
Luganda tones
Luganda, the main language of southern Uganda, is a tonal language of the Bantu family, traditionally described as having three tones: high, low and falling.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Luganda tones · See more »
Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Metre (poetry) · See more »
Nagasaki
() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Nagasaki · See more »
Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Old English · See more »
On (Japanese prosody)
The term On (rarely Onji) refers to counting phonetic sounds in Japanese poetry.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and On (Japanese prosody) · See more »
Osaka
() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Osaka · See more »
Palatalization (phonetics)
In phonetics, palatalization (also) or palatization refers to a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Palatalization (phonetics) · See more »
Phonology
Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Phonology · See more »
Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a language that has word-accents—that is, where one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour (linguistic tones) rather than by stress.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Pitch-accent language · See more »
Pluti
Pluti is the term for the phenomenon of overlong vowels in Sanskrit; the overlong vowels are themselves called pluta.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Pluti · See more »
Prenasalized consonant
Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant such as) that behave phonologically like single consonants.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Prenasalized consonant · See more »
Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Prosody (linguistics) · See more »
Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Sanskrit · See more »
Schwa
In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa (rarely or; sometimes spelled shwa) is the mid central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, denoted by the IPA symbol ə, or another vowel sound close to that position.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Schwa · See more »
Slovak language
Slovak is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, and Sorbian).
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Slovak language · See more »
Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Stress (linguistics) · See more »
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Syllable · See more »
Syllable weight
In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Syllable weight · See more »
Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Tokyo · See more »
Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Vowel length · See more »
Yōon
is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized.
New!!: Mora (linguistics) and Yōon · See more »
Redirects here:
Mora, linguistics, Morae, Moraic, Moraic rhythm, Quantity sensitivity.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)
