In
quadrisyllabic words comprising the HLLH structure, such as maktabate:n 'two libraries', parsing results as (mak)(taba)('te:)<n> forming three bimoraic feet.
if PAN and its descendants lacked
quadrisyllabic stems, *qali-/kali- words would have had high perceptual salience ...
However, there was no significant difference between the perception of disyllabic words and trisyllabic words or between the perception of trisyllabic words and
quadrisyllabic words.
vio-la instead of vi-o-la vio-li-no vi-o-li-no scien-za sci-en-za In the Divina commedia for instance, Dante employs the name Beatrice as a trisyllabic word 42 times, and as a
quadrisyllabic word 20 times, as befits the poetic meter at each occurrence.
A light quadrisyllabic form such as (ko.ri).(do.ri) also qualifies, given that it consists of two light disyllabic feet, (ko.ri) and (do.ri).
As illustrated in table 7, the first declension contains morphologically simple nouns with quadrisyllabic genitive singulars in -i, such as koridori.
We present analyses of the monomorphemic words in the CELEX lexical database, which showed that penultimate primary stress is less frequent in Dutch and English trisyllabic than
quadrisyllabic words.
A subsidiary reason for the absence of verbal amreditas might well have been that most such forms would have been trisyllabic, some even
quadrisyllabic (*havamahe-havamahe) and would have been avoided on those grounds alone (cf.
But Verlaine's
quadrisyllabic lines, which know when to run on and when to be end-stopped, triumph with their carefully wrought musicality.
stems in Punu are maximally
quadrisyllabic with severe constraints on vowel (and consonant) distributions within the prosodic trough (cf.
We also see that the only words that receive a secondary stress are forms that are
quadrisyllabic, as in (2d).