Prosody, Parsing, and Perception
The big picture
Collaborators and coconspirators for experimental work
Some phonology
The syllable in speech perception
Parsing
Morphology
Meter
Robinson’s curious pattern
The general plan
Organization
The theory of poetic meter
Matching the template
The meter of Merlin
The first few lines of Merlin
Monosyllables in w-position
Line-initial pre-stress
Line-initial isolate
Phrase-initial monosyllables
Line-medial phrase-initial pre-stress
Line-medial phrase-initial isolate
Other monosyllables
Line-medial phrase-medial pre-stress
line-medial phrase-medial post-stress
line-medial phrase-medial isolate
Phrasing
Preceding phrase; pre-stress
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Preceding polysyllable; pre-stress
Preceding phrase; post-stress
Preceding polysyllable; post-stress
What’s ruled out?
Summary
C-command Condition
James Thomson
C-command for both
PPT Slide
The general proposal
Why?
The specific proposal
Preceding polysyllable
Preceding phrase
Supralexical Footing (revised)
Further support
Trochaic words
Iambic words
Child language
Phrases
A puzzle
Not done
Conclusions
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