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Poetic meter and the arboreal grid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Michael Hammond
Michael Hammond*
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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Department of Linguistics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the representation of stress that poetic meter refers to. Hayes 1983 argues that meter is sensitive to the metrical grid of Liberman & Prince 1977; here it is argued that meter is sensitive to the arboreal grid of Hammond 1988. This argument is made on the basis of two constraints that hold for the meter of James Thomson. These constraints are unstatable in terms of the metrical grid or metrical tree.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 240 - 259
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Copyright © 1991 by Linguistic Society of America

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Footnotes

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Thanks to Diana Archangeli. Ti Chang, Mike Darnell. Bruce Hayes. Lisa Jensen, Linda Karlen. Lyn Kramer, Shaun O'Connor, Dick Oehrle, Jon Polek, the editor, and three anonymous reviewers for useful comments. All errors of data or analysis are the author's.

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