Heavy syllable - Revision history

Szigetva: added paragraph on only-long-vowel-heavy and only-sonorant-coda-heavy langs and refs

2007-10-24T22:20:44Z

added paragraph on only-long-vowel-heavy and only-sonorant-coda-heavy langs and refs

Haspelmath at 06:28, 23 October 2007

2007-10-23T06:28:45Z

Szigetva: included link to syllable weight

2007-10-22T13:22:10Z

included link to syllable weight

Szigetva: New page: A '''heavy syllable''' is a syllable that is more than one mora long. A heavy syllable contains either a long vowel or a coda consonant. (The latter case is called a [[closed...

2007-10-22T13:05:19Z

New page: A '''heavy syllable''' is a syllable that is more than one mora long. A heavy syllable contains either a long vowel or a coda consonant. (The latter case is called a [[closed...

New page

A '''heavy syllable''' is a [[syllable]] that is more than one [[mora]] long. A heavy syllable contains either a long vowel or a [[coda]] consonant. (The latter case is called a [[closed syllable]].) The English words ''eye'' [aɪ] and ''cat'' [kat] exemplify the two types of heavy syllable. A syllable shorter than a heavy syllable is called a [[light syllable]].

Sometimes a syllable which 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 two coda consonants.

In some languages (e.g., in English), word-final consonants do not contribute to syllable weight. The last syllable of the verb ''develop'' behaves as if light (although it is a closed syllable). This phenomenon is standardly explained by claiming that the word-final consonant is [[extrametricality|extrametrical]].

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	In some languages (e.g., in English), word-final consonants do not contribute to syllable weight. The last syllable of the verb ''develop'' behaves as if light (although it is a closed syllable). This phenomenon is standardly explained by claiming that the word-final consonant is [[extrametricality\|extrametrical]].		In some languages (e.g., in English), word-final consonants do not contribute to syllable weight. The last syllable of the verb ''develop'' behaves as if light (although it is a closed syllable). This phenomenon is standardly explained by claiming that the word-final consonant is [[extrametricality\|extrametrical]].
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		+	In some languages (e.g., in Ancient Greek, Khalkha Mongolian), only syllables with a long vowel are heavy, closed syllables with a short vowel are not. There even are a few languages (Lithuanian and Kwakwala), where syllables with a long vowel are heavy, but of closed syllables only those with a sonorant consonant in coda position count as heavy, those with an obstruent coda are light.
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		+	===References===
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		+	* Boas, Franz (1947) ''Kwakiutl grammar with a glossary of the suffixes,'' Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series, Vol. 37, Part 3.
		+	* Zec, Draga (1995) Sonority constraints on syllable structure, ''Phonology'' 12:85–129.

	===Other languages===		===Other languages===

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-A '''heavy syllable''' is a [[syllable]], whose [[syllable weight|weight]] is more than one [[mora]].  A heavy syllable contains either a long vowel or a [[coda]] consonant.  (The latter case is called a [[closed syllable]].)  The English words ''eye'' [aɪ] and ''cat'' [kat] exemplify the two types of heavy syllable.  A syllable shorter than a heavy syllable is called a [[light syllable]].
+A '''heavy syllable''' is a [[syllable]] whose [[syllable weight|weight]] is more than one [[mora]].  A heavy syllable contains either a long vowel or a [[coda]] consonant.  (The latter case is called a [[closed syllable]].)  The English words ''eye'' [aɪ] and ''cat'' [kat] exemplify the two types of heavy syllable.  A syllable shorter than a heavy syllable is called a [[light syllable]].
 Sometimes a syllable which 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 two coda consonants.
 In some languages (e.g., in English), word-final consonants do not contribute to syllable weight.  The last syllable of the verb ''develop'' behaves as if light (although it is a closed syllable).  This phenomenon is standardly explained by claiming that the word-final consonant is [[extrametricality|extrametrical]].