Word accent, phrase accent, and meter
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The material below, consisting of text with twelve interspersed exercises, was originally written as an essentially self-contained introduction to word accent (that is, for English, stress), phrase accent, and meter, to be used as supplementary material in an upper-division/graduate
introduction to linguistics. Students frequently evince interest in these topics, and students with literary interests genuinely need something to tie what they know about poetry to what they are learning about linguistics. As it happens, I haven't been able to insert this unit into the already crowded agenda of the course, but Nancy Levin has used a version of it in an undergraduate introduction to phonology course in the English Department at the State University College of New York at Fredonia, with a good response from her students. Sample answers are provided in an appendix.
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