The purpose of this paper • Demonstrate that the asymmetrical formulations of INITIAL GRIDMARK and NONFINALITY are justified o On typological grounds  There are numerous attested binary systems where clash or lapse is the result of an initial stress requirement or a final stresslessness requirement.  In contrast, binary systems where clash or lapse would be the result of initial stresslessnes...

A key component of early intervention for children with delayed language acquisition is early assessment. Previous research has shown that English-learning infants’ sensitivity to lexical stress plays a role in their segmentation of words from fluent speech – a critical step to developing a lexicon. This study investigated the possibility that performance on a word stress discrimination task pr...

This paper has two goals: first, to account for some metrical patterns attested in Russian iambic tetrameter; and second, to show how a grammar of categorically ranked constraints can make predictions about non-categorical phenomena. The general framework adopted here is that of generative metrics; this paper proposes a new constraint-based approach that builds most directly on the work of Frie...

It is often considered that English is Trochaic at the foot level (and this may explain the tendency to leftward-ho! stress shift at the word level), but that at the higher levels a syntactically based Iambic broad-focus pattern dominates. The presence of Trochaic patterns at the higher level has then either to be explained by information structured stress shifts(de-accentuation of back-ground ...

Prosodic rhythm in speech [the alternation of "Strong" (S) and "weak" (w) syllables] is cued, among others, by slow rates of amplitude modulation (AM) within the speech envelope. However, it is unclear exactly which envelope modulation rates and statistics are the most important for the rhythm percept. Here, the hypothesis that the phase relationship between "Stress" rate (∼2 Hz) and "Syllable"...