[Lingtyp] Stress/syllable/mora-timed languages

Volker Gast volker.gast at uni-jena.de
Mon Jul 4 16:36:01 UTC 2022


Thanks!

Would you have any pointers to relevant literature?

Volker

On 04.07.22 18:34, Ian Maddieson wrote:
> A better question to ask is whether this classification has any 
> meaning. Numerous efforts to look
> for measurable properties correlating with the alleged categories have 
> failed to find anything at
> all reliable. Different studies result in quite different groupings of 
> the same languages.
>
>> On Jul 4, 2022, at 10:26, Volker Gast <volker.gast at uni-jena.de> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> A friend has asked me if there is any way of determining how many 
>> languages in the world are stress/syllable/mora-timed.
>>
>> Is there a database with this information? Has anybody looked into 
>> this question?
>>
>> Best,
>> Volker
>>
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> Ian Maddieson
>
> Department of Linguistics
> University of New Mexico
> MSC03-2130
> Albuquerque NM 87131-0001
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