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 Vː 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. ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Stands for final /j/, /w/, /ŋ/.
  3. ↑ Special-cased since it shifts stress.
Mora counts
/V/ /Vv/ /VV/ /VVv/ /Vaw/
neutral tone 1μ 2μ 2μ 3μ 3μ
falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone 2μ 3μ 4μ
rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone 2μ 3μ 3μ 4μ 4μ
Syllable counts
/V/ /Vv/ /VV/ /VVv/ /Vaw/
neutral tone 1σ 2σ
falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone
rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone 2σ 3σ
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