Rara #19

Legacy number: 19

 Number  19
 Phenomenon  trimoraic and quadrimoraic syllables as a normal syllable type in the native vocabulary, with moras as prosody-bearing units (not just units of syllabic weight)
 Found in  Gilbertese (Micronesian)
 Domain  phonology — foot structure, syllable structure
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  syllable type
 Source  Blevins, Juliette & Sheldon P. Harrison (1999). Trimoraic feet in Gilbertese. Oceanic Linguistics 38: 203-230.
 Violates  none

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