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    <p>Thanks!</p>
    <p>Would you have any pointers to relevant literature?</p>
    <p>Volker<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04.07.22 18:34, Ian Maddieson wrote:<br>
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      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="">
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            <div class="">On Jul 4, 2022, at 10:26, Volker Gast <<a
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                <p class="">Dear all,<br class="">
                  A friend has asked me if there is any way of
                  determining <span class=" owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y
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                    are stress/syllable/mora-timed.</span></p>
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                    t1p8iaqh a8s20v7p">Is there a database with this
                    information? Has anybody looked into this question?<br
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                <p class=""><span class=" abs2jz4q dhp61c6y bipmatt0
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                    t1p8iaqh a8s20v7p">Best,<br class="">
                    Volker<br class="">
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