ABSTRACT
One of the central tenets of the moraic theory of syllable structure is that the mora serves as a primitive subsyllabic constituent and as a measure of syllable weight (Bickmore this volume, Katamba this volume, Hyman 1985, Itô 1989, Zec 1988, Hayes 1989, McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1990(a)). Syllables are parsed solely into moras, which in their turn function as weight units: a syllable with one mora is light, as in (1a), and with more than one mora, heavy, as in (1b).
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