Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line

catalexis constraint context contrastive accent demoted dominated elidible English example foot generativists Halle and Keyser harsh mapping heroic line heroic verse hexameter iambic pentameter iambs intonation-break intonational phrase kind language Latin lexical stress linguistic mapping rules matrix metre metric grammar metrical form metrical rules metrists Milton noun perceived performance phonetic phonological phonological word poem poets Pope prose prosodic base prosodic rules reader reading reversal rhythmic S W S S W S W S-slot S-slot Rule scan scansion schwa sentence sequence Shakespeare's simple speakers speech stressed syllable strict versification structure styles subordinated SW SW SW Św wS swap synaloepha syncope syntactic syntax template theory traditional metrics transformations trochee unmetrical unstressed utterance verb vowel W S W S W W S W SW W SW W W S W-position weak syllable word wS Św WS WS WS wW SS WS