feet

Richard Ogden (rao1@york.ac.uk)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:21:56 +0000 (GMT)

John and I talked this morning about strong and weak syllables within
feet: in particular, the issue of whether you can have more than one
strong syllable within a foot. We have no firm conclusions yet, and we
think we need a bit more help from Jill first.

So -- can you tell us how phrases like
blackboard duster
elevator operator
fall into AGs and feet for you? our conception of the foot in YorkTalk was
very word-based; above the word I don't think we really tested any fancy
stuff like this. (Or do you feel this is not something we need to worry
about at the moment?)

Richard

Richard Ogden
rao1@york.ac.uk
http://www.york.ac.uk/~rao1/