Connecting metrical stress theory to music, attention and timing, this book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and an up-to-date toolkit for the formal analysis of stress and accent in natural language, from a range of perspectives. It is essential reading for advanced students and academic researchers in phonetics and phonology.
Connecting metrical stress theory to music, attention and timing, this book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and an up-to-date toolkit for the formal analysis of stress and accent in natural language, from a range of perspectives. It is essential reading for advanced students and academic researchers in phonetics and phonology.
Brett Hyde is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program at Washington University. He has published a series of articles on stress and accent and a book, Layering and Directionality (2016), that have established him as the foremost expert on metrical stress in Optimality Theory.
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1. Noise and timing 2. Grouping 3. Typology 4. Correspondence: map and match 5. Directionality 6. Grid well-formedness: clash and lapse 7. Domain boundaries 8. Feet 9. Summary and conclusion Appendix Glossary References Index.