Syllable

[HughP]

Greetings,

I don't see Mora or syllable available in the schema. Is there a logical place to add it?

[dwhieb]

There's not currently a syllable schema, though I assumed there might be a use case for it at some point. What's the use case you have in mind?

[HughP]

This comment was older than, one day ago. I'm trying to remember. I was either trying to code the IPA chart in JSON or I was trying to do something with metrical phonology. I don't recall which it was.

[dwhieb]

For items in a lexicon, each item has a Transcription property, which would allow you to represent that item in a transcription that includes syllable boundaries. Likewise, individual tokens in a corpus also have a Transcription property which could include syllable boundaries. I think these two properties would cover any use cases I've thought of so far. Like I said, though, I expect another use will pop up at some point which would justify adding a new schema.