Content words are usually morae long ( i . e ., a minimum length of 2 light syllables or one heavy syllable ), while function words do not.
12.
In those cases, Central Alaskan Yup'ik changes the first light syllable in what would be a ( LH ) foot to a heavy syllable which then receives stress.
13.
In the table below the scansion of the examples is shown with the breve for light syllables, the macron for heavy ones, and the pipe } } for the divisions between metrical feet.
14.
This would explain the lack of stress in bisyllabic words : an initial light syllable, left alone by the extrametricity of the final syllable, cannot form a foot by itself and remains unstressed.
15.
In general, monomoraic syllables are called " light syllables ", bimoraic syllables are called " heavy syllables ", and trimoraic syllables ( in languages that have them ) are called " superheavy syllables ".
16.
As noted above, the number and order of heavy and light syllables in a line of poetry ( together with meter of the line, such as the most famous classical meter, the epic dactylic hexameter.
17.
Evidence from the heavy syllable but the text has a light syllable ( " positional quantity " ), and some cases in which a long vowel before a short vowel is not shortened ( absence of epic correption ).
18.
"' Sievers'law "'in ablaut in that the alternation has no morphological relevance but is phonologically context-sensitive : PIE followed a heavy syllable ( a syllable with a diphthong, a long vowel, or ending in more than one consonant ), but would follow a light syllable ( a short vowel followed by a single consonant ).
19.
The distinction between heavy and light syllables plays an important role in the phonology of some languages, especially with regard to the assignment of foot contains a heavy syllable in the first syllable while the second syllable is light, the iamb shifts to a trochee ( i . e . antepenultimate stress ) because there is a requirement that main stress fall on a heavy syllable whenever possible : ( " " H "'L ) ?, and not * ( H " " L "') ?.
20.
The hierarchical model accounts for the role that the " nucleus " + " coda " constituent plays in verse ( i . e ., rhyming words such as " cat " and " bat " are formed by matching both the nucleus and coda, or the entire rime ), and for the distinction between heavy and light syllables, which plays a role in phonological processes such as, for example, sound change in Old English " scipu " and " wordu ".
