<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A better question to ask is whether this classification has any meaning. Numerous efforts to look<div class="">for measurable properties correlating with the alleged categories have failed to find anything at</div><div class="">all reliable. Different studies result in quite different groupings of the same languages.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 4, 2022, at 10:26, Volker Gast <<a href="mailto:volker.gast@uni-jena.de" class="">volker.gast@uni-jena.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Dear all,<br class="">
A friend has asked me if there is any way of determining <span class=" owwhemhu dp1hu0rb
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stress/syllable/mora-timed.</span></p><p class=""><span class=" abs2jz4q dhp61c6y bipmatt0 q3lfd5jv cebpdrjk owwhemhu
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information? Has anybody looked into this question?<br class="">
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a8s20v7p">Best,<br class="">
Volker<br class="">
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