[Lingtyp] Question about syllables

[Nigel Vincent]

Why does it have be 'simplex'? What about 'syllable count' (compare 'word count')?
Nigel


Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester



https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html
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Syllable ratio? Envoyé de mon smartphone > Le 31 août 2023 à 11: 42, Eitan Grossman <eitan. grossman@ mail. huji. ac. il> a écrit : > >  > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of a simplex term that means 'number of syllables' in
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Syllable ratio?

Envoyé de mon smartphone

> Le 31 août 2023 à 11:42, Eitan Grossman <eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il> a écrit :
>
> 
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> If there isn't such a term, new inventions are welcome :)
>
> Eitan
>
>
> Eitan Grossman
> Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> Tel: +972 2 588 3809
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