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Iambic and Trochaic Rhythm in Stress Rules

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics SocietyPublished 5 October 2011Open access
Bruce Hayes
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TL;DR

This paper presents a meta-analyses of the corpus linguistics Foundations of Linguistics (BLS) using a probabilistic approach and shows clear trends in the construction of sentences and in the types of sentences followed bygrams.

Abstract

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 429-446

Keywords

Psychology