ABSTRACT
This system of rules has two principal advantages over the corresponding set of rules (given in (67) above) which were required in the diacritic theory of section 3. First, it permits us to eliminate one rule, since the special treatment of lal in final syllables, generalization (18a), is now simply a case of the rule which is motivated by (18f), alternating stressability. Second, it permits us to rationalize the iterative character of the rule for alternating stressability, and the apparent syllablecounting which this rule involves, by referring these properties to general principles of the metrical framework. This framework also permits us to avoid explicit reference to diacritic properties of the representations which are inputs to the assignment of alternating stressability, since the role of accents in regulating the application of Subfoot Formation follows from general conventions and need not be stated in the rule itself.
