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Sentences with MORAE

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"In Japanese, each hiragana character typically represents one or two morae."
2
"The word 'morae' is derived from the term 'mora', which was coined by the linguist Leonard Bloomfield."
3
"Linguists use the concept of morae to analyze the syllable structure of languages."
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"The duration of morae can vary depending on the stress and emphasis of a word or phrase."
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"Old English poetry often employed morae to maintain the rhythmic pattern."
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"In some languages, like Latin, the number of morae can determine the stress pattern of a word."
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"The word 'alphabet' consists of four morae: a, l, ph, and abet."
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"Different dialects may have different numbers of morae in words with the same meaning."
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"The rhythmic pattern of a haiku is usually composed of a 5-7-5 morae structure."
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"The study of morae is an important aspect of prosody and phonology."
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