Metrical phonology is a young discipline:
new ideas keep coming and going, and fashions change just about every
decade. Bruce Hayes's excellent and influential book _Metrical Stress Theory:
Principles and Case Studies_ (1995, University of Chicago Press) is still
considered standard. Armin R. Mester published a very interesting paper on Latin
stress in 1994: "The Quantitative Trochee in Latin", in _Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory_ 12/1: 1-61. Iambic shortening and related phenomena
(Plautinian word-internal shortenings, etc.) are discussed there.
Piotr
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] the rhythm and stress in Latin
Thanks Piotr - that's helpful. It shows
how out of touch I am now! Do you have a reference I can follow
up?