THE PROSODIC HIERARCHY IN METER

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the prosodic hierarchy in meter. In prosodic hierarchy, the essence of the theory is that utterances are phrased in the same sense that musical passages are phrased. As in music, phrasing in language is hierarchical: The lowest units are grouped into small phrases that in turn are grouped into larger phrases, and so on through several levels. This phrasing, or prosodic hierarchy, governs the way in which sandhi rules may be applied. The prosodic hierarchy of an utterance is determined by its syntactic structure but is not identical to it. The hierarchy is derived from syntactic structure by a set of rules that alter bracketing and provide labels for the various levels of phrasing.

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