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Example 2: "Pedestrian" Draw a prosodic word tree for 'pedestrian'. Following through the above five steps. (1) 'pedestrian' = w s w w (2) (3) (i.e. a ternary foot) (4) This won't apply because there's only one foot.
The Foot and Word Stress Robert Mannell Feet and Rhythm in a Limerick This document attempts to illustrate the often very complex relationship between word, foot and prosodic phrase boundaries. This is one possible analysis of such a text. This limerick could be analysed in a number of ways depending upon the model being used and also upon the actual speech patterns of someone speaking this verse. This analysis predicts only one possible way of saying this verse. ǁ there | WAS an | old ǁ | MAN from ǁ ne- | PAL ǁ | ǁǁ ǁ who | WAS so in- ǁ | CRED-ib-ly ǁ | TALL ǁ | ǁǁ ǁ that | WHEN he | looked ǁ | DOWN ǁ | ǁǁ ǁ he | THOUGHT he would ǁ | DROWN ǁ | ǁǁ ǁ but | NOW he's just ǁ | SCARED that he'll ǁ | FALL ǁ | ǁǁ Several features of this Limerick should be noted:- • "|" represents a foot boundary, "ǁ" represents an "intermediate phrase" boundary, and (for the purposes of this example) "ǁǁ" represents an "intonational phrase" boundary (see below). When 2 or 3 different types of boundaries are adjacent their order is not significant and they should be seen as being simultaneous. The only example of a higher level boundary not coinciding with a lower level boundary is the intermediate phrase boundary between "from" and "Nepal" in the first line. This occurs because foot boundaries occur before a stressed syllable (because they are primarily rhythmic) whilst intermediate phrase boundaries occur at word boundaries (because they are primarily semantic). • Each line commences with a single unfooted unstressed syllable (although its also possible for some of these words to be stressed but unaccented). These syllables have not been associated with the preceding foot (ie. at the end of the preceding line) because Limericks are recited so that each line is realised as a separate intonational phrase. Feet can ignore word boundaries and even intermediate phrase boundaries, but they cannot ignore intonational phrase boundaries (which are often realised acoustically by a pause). An unstressed
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Page 7 and 8: The Rhyme The rhyme is the vowel pl
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