...This chapter discusses meter and word stress in language, with an emphasis on English iambic verse. It assumes that feet are computed by a kind of paraphonology which alters the phonological derivations of the language and gives rise to at least one alternative representation that may be different...

...This chapter examines nonlexical word stress in the English iambic pentameter and the relevant prosodic properties of the language. It looks at the metrical treatment by three poets—William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Percy Bysshe Shelley—of disyllabic function words and Paul Kiparsky's (1977...