Abstract
This article seeks to develop alternatives to recent theories (Hayes 1985, 1987, 1991;
McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1990; Prince 1991) that explain quantitative asymmetries
between iambic and trochaic systems on the basis of a rhythmic iambic-trochaic taw.
The theory proposed here derives such asymmetries from two different rhythmic
factors: moraic prominence-relations internal to heavy
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