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• Heavy syllable
  ...vy syllable. A syllable shorter than a heavy syllable is called a [[light syllable]]. ...hich is longer than two moras is called a [[superheavy syllable]]. Such a syllable contains either a long vowel ''and'' a coda consonant, or a short vowel and
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• Mora
  ...e]] [[weight]] in [[moraic theory]]. Moras are the units to which metrical structure may refer. * Van der Hulst 1984. ''Syllable structure and stress in Dutch,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Quantity-(in)sensitivity
  ...insensitive (=QI) language feet are built ignoring differences in syllable structure, i.e. all types of syllables can occur in the head position of a foot. ...stress if the penultimate is light: co:nfíci<unt>; the penultimate syllable is stressed only if it is heavy: pepér<ci:> (cf. Hayes (1991:80).
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• Syllable
  '''Syllable''' is a unit of [[pronunciation]] that consists of a [[syllabic]] element ( *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Syllable&lemmacode=1610 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Metrical tree
  ...combined into [[foot|feet]] and feet into a word constituent. Higher level structure includes the [[phonological phrase]], [[intonational phrase]] and [[utteran where S = syllable, w = weak, F = foot, s = strong
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• Maximal Onset Principle
  ...the '''Maximal Onset Principle''' is a principle determining underlying [[syllable division]]. It states that intervocalic [[consonants]] are maximally assign * Kahn, Daniel (1976) Syllable-based generalizations in English phonology. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
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• Portal:Phonetics and phonology
  ...], [[stress]], [[stress-timed and syllable-timed]], [[syllabification]], [[syllable peak]], [[syncope]], [[tense (in phonology)]], [[ternary foot]], [[tone]],
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• Syllable weight
  ...t''' is a property of [[syllable]]s, referring to the quantity or internal structure of syllables. ...eavy are VVC and VCC in languages that distinguish light/heavy/superheavy. Syllable weight plays a determining role in the distribution of stresses in Quantity
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• Trochee
  ...prosodic [[foot]] consisting of a [[strong syllable]] followed by a [[weak syllable]]. In some typologies of foot structure, a trochee is any foot consisting of up to two ''units'' (which may or may
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• Fuckin' insertion
  ...is inserted between two metrical feet of which the latter one contains the syllable that carries the main stress. * McCarthy 1982a. ''Prosodic Structure and Expletive Infixation,'' Language 58, pp. 574-590
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• Underspecification
  ...[-spread glottis] in all other contexts. See [[Structure preservation]], [[structure-building rule]].
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• Semivowel
  ...se for [[vowel]]s and [[diphthong]]s. The /r/ and /l/ sounds produced in [[syllable]] final position can be prolonged as in 'car' or 'full' and sound much like
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• Bracketing paradox
  ...one would like to propose for semantic reasons does not correspond to the structure one would like to propose for phonological reasons. ...ic [[adjective]]s, and a small class of bisyllabic ones with a light final syllable, while it may not attach to adjectives with two or more heavy syllables. Co
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• Sonority hierarchy
  ...differently: the more sonorous a segment, the closer to the nucleus of the syllable. * Zec, Draga (1995) "Sonority constraints on syllable structure", ''Phonology'' 12: 85-129.
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• Foot
  ...is a [[prosody|prosodic]] constituent/unit introduced by Selkirk (1981). [[Syllable]]s are combined in a higher level constituent, i.e. the foot. * Selkirk, E.O. 1984. ''Phonology and Syntax: The Relation between Sound and Structure,'' Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
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• Mapping Principle (in morphology)
  ...ations of ungrammaticality in (ii) are also equivalent, since hierarchical structure is irrelevant at this level of representation:
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• Main Page
  ...cord]], [[nonconfigurationality]], [[noun]], [[part of speech]], [[phrase structure grammar]], [[pied piping]], [[prepositional phrase]], [[pro]], [[PRO]], [[p ...cent (lexical)]], [[prependix]], [[stop]], [[stress]], [[stress-timed and syllable-timed]], [[uvular]], [[velar]], [[velarization]], [[vowel]]
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• Swedish Phonology
  ...ceive the acute accent.<ref name="lindholm"/> It can occur in any accented syllable regardless of position.<ref name="gårding"/> However, there are also speci * words which start with an unstressed syllable, e.g. ''betála'', ''förhǻllande''
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• Hadza
  ...ically, initial #NCV may also occur in shortened forms when the initial hV syllable of a #hVC₂V-shaped word is elided and C₂ is a glottalized nasal click. ...itch accent]]. Salient stress and pitch are not restricted to a particular syllable; their position may vary between elicitations of at least some words pronou
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• Jerzy Woronczak
  ...and Mandelbrot, he developed an analytical description of the quantitative structure of the vocabulary of a complete text, treating it as a sampling from the ge ...ansmitted orally, these being easy to remember by their regular, formulaic structure, which served not only an aesthetic, but also, and perhaps foremost, a mnem
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