Prosody

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Syllable shapes
Medial Final Unstressed Stressed
No hiatus Hiatus present
neutral tone[nb 1] falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone
V V V₁.V₁
Vv[nb 2] Vv Vv V₁.V₁v
V V V₁.V₂ V₁ː.V₂ V₁.V₁.V₂
Vv[nb 2] V₁.V₂v V₁ː.V₂v V₁.V₁.V₂v
ˈaw[nb 3] V.ˈaw V.ˈaw V.ˈa.aw
  1. Includes the continuation tone (belonging to non-initial syllables of multisyllabic words).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Stands for final /j/, /w/, /ŋ/.
  3. Special-cased since it shifts stress.

Phone-based mora counts ([V] = 1 mora, [Vv] = 2 morae):

/V/ /Vv/ /VV/ /VVv/ /Vaw/
neutral tone 1 2 2 3 3
falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone 2 3 4
rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone 2 3 3 4 4


Hiatus-based mora counts (each hiatus [.] adds 1 mora):

/V/ /Vv/ /VV/ /VVv/ /Vaw/
neutral tone 1 2
falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone
rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone 2 3