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In Old English, short diphthongs and monophthongs were monomoraic, long diphthongs and monophthongs were bimoraic, consonants ending a syllable were each one mora, and geminate consonants added a mora to the preceding syllable. If Modern English is analyzed in terms of morae at all, which is contentious, the rules would be similar, except that ...
Short Shoshoni vowels have one mora, while long vowels and vowel clusters ending in [a] have two morae. Following the primary stress, every other mora receives secondary stress. If stress falls on the second mora in a long vowel, the stress is transferred to the first mora in the long vowel and mora counting continues from there.
You say that both syllables and moras aren't directly measurable "with soundwaves," and that shows how both moras and syllables are cultural constructs we CAN use to add to our understanding of pronunciation. We aren't required to perceive moras in English the same way we're not required to do a feminist reading of "Hamlet."
ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho].In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).
(1) If the second mora is a hatsuon or the lengthening half of a long vowel, the tone of the first mora is "high", and there may or may not be initial lowering. (2) If the second mora is a sokuon, the tone of the first mora is "low", and there is initial lowering, but the tone of the second mora is also "low."
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Mora is a genus of large trees in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae [2] of the legume family Fabaceae (or in some classifications the family Caesalpinaceae of the order Fabales). There are six species , all native to lowland rainforests in northern South America, southern Central America, the southern Caribbean islands, and Hispaniola .
Mora (drink), a drink consisting of blackberry juice, water and sugar; Mora, a genus of fish in the family Moridae; Mora, a genus of plants in the pea family Fabaceae; Mora (linguistics), a unit of sound mōra, the modern Japanese equivalent; Mora (music store), a music download store by Sony; Mora Banc Grup, joint name of two Andorran banks