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  2. Metrical phonology - Wikipedia

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    For example, the word 'nineteen' spoken in isolation has stress on the second syllable. But when it is placed before 'girls' the stress on 'nineteen' can shift to the first syllable. Two syllables exhibit stress clash if there are two successive rows in the grid in which their columns are adjacent (i.e. there is no X between them).

  3. Sonority sequencing principle - Wikipedia

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    A good example for the SSP in English is the one-syllable word trust: The first consonant in the syllable onset is t, which is a stop, the lowest on the sonority scale; next is r, a liquid which is more sonorous, then we have the vowel u / ĘŚ / – the sonority peak; next, in the syllable coda, is s, a sibilant, and last is another stop, t.

  4. Prosodic unit - Wikipedia

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    The last syllable with a full vowel in a French prosodic unit is stressed, and the last stressed syllable in an English prosodic unit has primary stress. This shows that stress is not phonemic in French, and that the difference between primary and secondary stress is not phonemic in English; they are both elements of prosody rather than ...

  5. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    These symbols describe the features of a language above the level of individual consonants and vowels, that is, at the level of syllable, word or phrase. These include prosody , pitch, length , stress , intensity, tone and gemination of the sounds of a language, as well as the rhythm and intonation of speech. [ 72 ]

  6. Isochrony - Wikipedia

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    Isochrony is a linguistic analysis or hypothesis assuming that any spoken language's utterances are divisible into equal rhythmic portions of some kind. Under this assumption, languages are proposed to broadly fall into one of two categories based on rhythm or timing: syllable-timed or stress-timed languages [1] (or, in some analyses, a third category: mora-timed languages). [2]

  7. Extrametricality - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a language like classical Latin, where polysyllabic words never have stress on their final syllables, and the position of stress in a word is determined by looking at the penultimate and antepenultimate syllables only, it simplifies the linguistic formulation of the stress-assignment rules of Latin to say that the final syllable ...

  8. Optimality theory - Wikipedia

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    A syllable must not have more than one segment in its onset, nucleus or coda. CodaCond: Coda consonants cannot have place features that are not shared by an onset consonant. CodaCondition: NonFinality: A word-final syllable (or foot) must not bear stress. NonFin: FtBin: A foot must be two syllables (or moras). FootBinarity: Pk-Prom

  9. Phonological hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    For example, the clitic group is not considered to be a separate level in Selkirk's version of the hierarchy, [1] while the minor phrase or accentual phrase are not considered to be separate from the phonological phrase in Hayes' [2] and Nespor & Vogel's hierarchies. [3] [4] Utterance [2] [3] Intonational phrase (I-phrase, ι) [1] also known as: