Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Syllables and stress

Syllable structure often interacts with stress. In Latin, for example, stress is regularly determined by syllable weight, a syllable counting as heavy if it has at least one of the following:

* a long vowel in its nucleus
* a diphthong in its nucleus
* one or more coda(e)

In each case the syllable is considered to have two moras.

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