This study is an investigation into the syllable structure and rhythmic properties of Urama, an undocumented, indigenous Papuan language of New Guinea. Syllable structure in Urama is characteristic of most Papuan languages – onsets are simple, codas are prohibited, and long sequences of vowels are common. Acoustic examination of pilot data revealed considerable differences in syllable duration,...

At least four factors have been shown to have a reliable effect on segmental durations in Finnish (apart from such global effects as speech tempo and position within the utterance). The best known and most obvious of these factors is the quantity opposition, separately for vowels and consonants (and independently of word stress). Finnish thus has words like taka, taaka, takka, taakka, takaa, ta...

Entrevista al escritor, profesor y crítico literario Vicente Luis Mora.

A proposta deste artigo consiste numa reflexão acerca de textos Fernando Pessoa pouco explorados – cujas autorias pertencem a uma personalidade, Antônio Mora, um heterônimo, Álvaro Campos, e Pessoa, o ortônimo sobre estética teoria da literatura. Pretende-se mostrar que pensamento Mora (grosso modo, clássico) Campos moderno) são rigorosamente opostos, consiste, em parte, na conjugação das ideia...

Prosodic Weight* Draga Zec Cornell University Introduction Syllable weight has been standardly characterized in terms of subsyllabic constituency, and computed by making reference to mora count, as argued in Hyman 1984, McCarthy and Prince 1986 and Hayes 1989, among others.1 Certain recent proposals, however, posit additional syllable weight distinctions, based on the sonority of the nucleus (e...

This paper deals with vowel length in Friulian, and shows that this is sometimes phonologically predictable an instance of mora affixation conjugation 1 verbs. Building on newly collected data verbal morphology, we make the hypothesis Theme morpheme verbs dialect Negrons has distinct allomorphs, among which a mora. analysis morphological Friulian there no need for morphome-based data. In our an...