This chapter deals with word stress patterns in the framework of OT.
-Which stand out as being typically governed by conflicting forces.引自 Chapter 4 Metrical structure and parallelism
# Some results of the metrical theory of word stress. #
1. Metrical phonology: developed in the 1970s by Liberman and Prince 1977, Hayers 1980, 1995, Halle and Vergnaud 1987.
2. Central assumption: stress is a rhythmic phenomenon, encoded by strong-weak relations betwwen syllables.
3. Typology of word stress: stress patterns are a domain of potentially conflicting forces.
