Hayes (1995) makes an extensive study of metrical stress systems, within a unifying typological framework. The typology is based on earlier work by Hayes (1985) and McCarthy & Prince (1986); it is marked by several striking asymmetries between iambic and trochaic languages. Hayes makes the following claims: That all iambic languages are sensitive to syllable weight (quantity); in particular, th...

the present article investigates the stress pattern system of central sarawani balochi (csb), spoken in sarawan located in sistan and baluchestan province of the islamic republic of iran, based on metrical theory as developed in hayes (1995). correspondingly, the present research illustrates the position of primary and secondary stress in mono-morphemic words, verbal paradigms, compound words, ...

A recursive foot is one in which a embedded inside another of the same type: e.g., iambic (iaσ(iaσσ́)) or trochaic (tr(trσ́σ)σ). Recent work has used such feet to model stress systems with full partial ternary rhythm, falls on every third syllable mora. I show here that no system requires feet, phonological processes languages likely don’t either, and notion theoretically suspect.

(1) (a) Positional Preservation: Underlying phonological material can resist neutralization at the left edge of a constituent, but not at the right edge. (Trubetzkoy 1939:228ff, Casali 1997, Beckman 1998) (b) Iambic Footing Asymmetry: Iambic feet are almost always parsed from left to right − not rightto-left. e.g. [(σσ")(σσ")σ], *[σ(σσ")(σσ")]. (Hayes 1985, 1995) (c) Prefix-Suffix Asymmetry: At...

Given the striking tendency in poem towards iambic metrical patterns, with around half of lines unambiguously constituting an ideal iamb, one would require highly convincing evidence to justify treating these as irregularities otherwise trochaic metre. Indeed, such analysis is contrary linguistic evidence, only 34 written what could be convincingly argued a These ‘trochaic’ can also treated iam...

This paper analyzes stress and moraic constituencies in Paumari, an endangered language of the Arawan family of the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that Paumari feet are quantity-insensitive iambs, built from right-to-left within the prosodic word. Both of these latter claims are theoretically important because they violate some proposed universals of foot structure. The paper also discusses more g...

This paper examines the acoustic and perceptual properties of iambic vs. trochaic meter in a large corpus of read German poetry. Psychoacoustic evidence of metrical grouping is not straightforwardly applicable to speech, due to the complex interaction of the involved acoustic parameters in prominence expression. It is possible that grouping effects in (poetic) speech are merely an artifact of l...

1. Introduction This paper analyses foot and syllable structure in Paumari, an Amazonian language of the Arawan family (see Figure 1), all of whose languages are spoken near the Purus river in Western Amazonas state, Brazil. Paumari is a highly endangered language. There are only a few hundred speakers of Paumari and most of them speak Portuguese more and more in their daily lives, occasionally...

This study was designed to test the iambic/trochaic law, which claims that elements contrasting in duration naturally form rhythmic groupings with final prominence, whereas elements contrasting in intensity form groupings with initial prominence. It was also designed to evaluate whether the iambic/trochaic law describes general auditory biases, or whether rhythmic grouping is speech or language...