Ternary rhythm and the lapse constraint

The Lapse Constraint

First, it does the work of the traditional Lapse constraint (cf. Selkirk 1984) preventing a metrical foot from becoming too large and hence imposes an upper bound of binarity. Second, it prevents feet from drifting too far apart--at most one unparsed syllable can intervene (a constraint similar to this effect was independently discovered by Kager 1994); finally, another effect of Lapse unique t...

Ternary rhythm in alignment theory

The roles of GEN and CON in modeling ternary rhythm

Vowel Shortening and Surface Ternary Feet : Ternary Rhythm Through Strictly Binary Footing

The focus of this paper is on two types of shortening observed in recent Japanese loanwords and on the trochaic shortening in Fijian. I will argue that the Japanese shortenings take place when a metrically unstable binary foot (extrametrical foot) becomes a stray mora so as to be accommodated into one of the two proposed surface ternary foot structures whereas Fijian Trochaic Shortening occurs ...

On the Reservation Wages and Liquidity Constraint

This paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. The optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...