PHONOLOGY: a universal convention by which extrametrical units are incorporated into the representation of stress. By convention the extrametrical unit is weak. EXAMPLE: in English the final syllable of a noun is extrametrical. After foot construction and word tree construction, the extrametrical syllable is incorporated into the adjacent foot as a weak member by stray adjunction.
/\ s \ /\ /\ | | s | s | | /\ | /\ | w s w w s w w | | | | | | ameri<ca> -> america
|LIT.||Hayes, B. (1981)|
Liberman, M. and A. Prince (1977)