ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the existence of nonmetrical prosodic structure in the lexicon, and proposes a set of structure-building constituent formation algorithms to build that structure. It explains a new set of sublexical prosodic constituents which serve as lexical rule domains; these replace the mora, syllable and foot as the sublexical end of the prosodic hierarchy. The chapter focuses on the hypothesis that the metrical constituents belong to their own distinct hierarchy by presenting evidence of mismatches between the metrical and prosodic hierarchies. The translation of principles of level ordering into the constituent terms of Prosodic Lexical Phonology is trivial: to each 'level' of level-ordered morphology there corresponds a unique constituent category in the morphological and prosodic hierarchies. The chapter looks at several of the examples of the asymmetry between bound roots and stems, and shows that the explanation follows naturally from Prosodic Lexical Phonology.
