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dimoraic

dimoraic adjective: having two morae.

Adjective

dimoraic (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Having two morae.
    • This is amply demonstrated through the application of tone rules such as Final High Tone Retraction, which deletes a high tone on the final vowel of a word and reassociates it with the second mora of a dimoraic (long) penultimate syllable.1997, AD Mtenje, “The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi”, in Anthropological Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, page 170
    • The analyses indicate that MHE vowel durations correspond to NE durations for the dimoraic (long) vowels, but correspond to the Spanish‐accented vowels of L2E for the monomoraic (short) vowels.2009, K Konopka, “Vowel duration in Mexican heritage English”, in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 125, page 2757
    Synonyms:
    bimoraic

Synonyms of dimoraic

Origin of dimoraic

From di- + moraic.

Questions about dimoraic

What does dimoraic mean?
Dimoraic means having two morae.
What part of speech is dimoraic?
Dimoraic is an adjective.

Words near dimoraic in the dictionary

  1. Dimon
  2. Dimond
  3. Dimonds
  4. Dimopoulos
  5. Dimopouloses
  6. dimoraic
  7. dimoric
  8. dimorph
  9. dimorphemic
  10. dimorphic
  11. dimorphically

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