In Favour of Layered Feet

In this response we argue that the factorial typology predicted in Martínez-Paricio & Kager (2015), which representationally relies on existence of internally layered ternary feet, is complete and accurate. We demonstrate it does not suffer from problematic cases overgeneration pointed out by Golston (this issue). Additionally, corroborate idea foot a metrical representation typologically warranted for stress phenomena as well segmental tonal metrically conditioned distributions. suggest Golston’s claim “no system requires feet” appears to be too strong empirically substantiated.