Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

On 27 Jan 00, at 7:21, The Gray Wizard wrote:

> If nothing else, this discussion has illuminated a gaping hole in my
> linguistic knowledge.  A cursory search of my rather extensive collection of
> linguistics texts turned up very little discussion of syllabification, which
> might explain my almost total ignorance in the matter.  An internet search
> turned up very little as well and a search at Amazon turned up one
> out-of-print text.  I need available references.  Can anyone here provide
> any?
>
I'm struggling through a book on phonology, which seems to touch
sporadically but deeply on syllabification:

Anderson & Durand 1987, "Explorations in Dependancy Phonology"
    Publications in Language Sciences #26
    Foris Publications, ISBN 90 6765 298 9

A section within the introduction, for example -- which makes my eyes glaze
over at the moment -- is full of "interesting" words and phrases like
infrasegmantal, silent ictus, ambi-dependancy, tonic movement, group head
and superfoot.
"Guaranteed to kill or cure", as they say! :-)



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