Abstract
This article challenges the commonly-held assumption that words, feet and
syllables fit into a single phonological hierarchy, and in particular that feet
are always sub-units of words. A number of facts of English rhythm are cited
which cannot be accounted for unless words and feet are taken to be units
of different hierarchies: many of the differences of rhythm between phrases
of otherwise similar phonological structure which are noted by Abercrombie
(1964) are accounted for most naturally by differences in placement between,
on the one hand, word- and stress-group-boundaries, and, on the other, foot-boundaries.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
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