A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
arithmetic conception of quantity
n. The interpretation of long syllabic nuclei as geminates or other sequences of short elements, sometimes said to be appropriate for languages in which the mora, rather than the syllable, is the smallest prosodic unit. Trubetzkoy (1939).
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