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Heavy Syllable

A Heavy Syllable is a syllable in phonological theory that belongs to the class of syllable weight categories and is distinguished by containing either a branching rime (a long vowel or diphthong) or a coda consonant, thereby occupying two morae in moraic theory.

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Bimoraic Syllable

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A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight

Matthew J. Gordon · Language · 2002 · 163 citations

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Prosodic circumscription in Choctaw morphology

Linda Lombardi, John J. McCarthy · Phonology · 1991 · 146 citations

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Three Exemplars Allow at Least Some Linguistic Generalizations: Implications for Generalization Mechanisms and Constraints

LouAnn Gerken, Alex Bollt · Language Learning and Development · 2008 · 141 citations

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Syllable Structure in Bella Coola

Bruce Bagemihl · Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 1990 · 98 citations · Full text

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CVC light syllables, geminates and Moraic Theory

Bernard Tranel · Phonology · 1991 · 97 citations

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Authors

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  1. BH
    Brett Hyde

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  2. MG
    Matthew Gordon

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 86 citations

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  3. MJ
    Matthew J. Gordon

    University of Missouri, United States

    1 publications · 163 citations

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  4. BB
    Bruce Bagemihl

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    1 publications · 98 citations

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  5. KM
    Kevin M. Ryan

    University of Limerick, Ireland

    1 publications · 16 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

  2. Indiana State University

    Terre Haute, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  4. Center for Applied Linguistics

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  5. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    78 citations

  6. University of Redlands

    Redlands, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    282 citations

  8. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    292 citations

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  1. Phonology

    4 publications · 292 citations

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  2. International Journal of American Linguistics

    2 publications · 105 citations

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  3. Linguistica Uralica

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  4. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

    BASOR · 1 publications · 34 citations

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  5. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

    Repository · 1 publications · 98 citations

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