ABSTRACT

Moving from the periodic properties of verse to those

"alternating" accent, which assign accent to every other of

a sequence of units within the word, present no problem as

assign main accent in terms of phonological and boundary

accent on an element adjacent to a boundary, such as the initial or final syllable, will, according to the above

of prominence, or any other phonetic, phonological, or syn-

sidered, seem to be limited to three: the accent-group, the

counting, and mora-counting verse, without excluding the

counting and syllable-counting.