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Minimality and Foot Structure in Metrical Phonology and Prosodic Morphology

By Megan Crowhurst

Megan Crowhurst argues that minimal structure requirements on foot constituents differ depending on whether a foot is introduced by a metrical rule or by an operation of prosodic morphology. The difference is attributed to the presence or absence of a head element: the minimum quantitative endowment of a metrical foot is determined by constraints on both a foot template and an obligatory metrical head. By contrast, it is argued that feet manipulated by morphological rules do not require heads. For this reason, the minimal foot in morphology is determined by constraints only on the relevant foot template without reference to a head.

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