LINB04H3 Chapter 14: Notes for Chapter 14 - Understanding Phonology

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Duration, pitch variation and vowel quantity are involved in creating the impression of stress in english. Liberman and prince (1977): stress is a structural position called a foot, not a phonological feature given content by phonetic rules. The foot is a position above the syllable, below the word. A foot is typically characterized as one strong syllable and one weak syllable. How stress is realized depends on how a language chooses to use the structural foot position. 14. 2. 1 metrical feet and feet in poetry. In poetry and stress theory, the foot represents a kind of grouping of syllables into constituents. Reminder: a syllable is light if it has a short vowel and is not closed, it is heavy if it has a long syllable, or ends in a consonant. In metrical stress theory, feet represent the stress pattern of a word and are intended to provide descriptive units to account for the stress patterns that may exist in languages.

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