[Lingtyp] Question about syllables

Eitan Grossman eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il
Fri Sep 1 13:58:04 UTC 2023


Hi all,
Thanks for your helpful suggestions, it seems like "syllable count" is what
most people suggested.

Eitan



Eitan Grossman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel: +972 2 588 3809




On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 8:45 AM Ian Maddieson <ianm at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Syllable count
>
> On Aug 31, 2023, at 08:09, Sylvain Kahane <sylvain at kahane.fr> wrote:
>
> 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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> Ian Maddieson
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