<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Or how about “prosodic length”? A quick search indicates that this is typically used to mean “the number of syllables in a given unit”, though occasionally it appears to be synonymous with prosodic <i class="">lengthening</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> (of a vowel or syllable).</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Sep 2023, at 12:23 am, Nigel Vincent <<a href="mailto:nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk" class="">nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why does it have be 'simplex'? 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> Le 31 août 2023 à 11:42, Eitan Grossman <<a href="mailto:eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il" class="">eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il</a>> a écrit :
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> Hi all,
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> Does anyone know of a simplex term that means 'number of syllables' in a given unit?
>
> 'Syllabification' seems close, but that means the segmentation into syllables and not the number of syllables.
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> If there isn't such a term, new inventions are welcome :)
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> Eitan
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> Eitan Grossman
> Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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