@article {35, title = {Another heresy: RAX entails bostrodac-fypaestmo}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen}, address = {Utrecht, The Netherlands}, abstract = {

In linguistics/phonetics {\textquoteleft}stress{\textquoteright} is generally treated as some sort of {\textquoteleft}prominence{\textquoteright} one can pick up and move about like cherries on a cake. Rhythm is rarely mentioned. It is terra incognita remaining unexplored.

Indeed, Fraisse{\textquoteright}s ground-breaking Psychologie du rythme (1974) is never even mentioned at all. Postulating a Rhythmic Alternation aXiom saying {\textquoteright}no more than two weaker between stronger beats, etc.{\textquoteright}, this logically entails (hierarchies of) no more than 9 ictus {\textpm} remiss(es) groupings: yamBOS, TROchee, DACtylus, (+)amPHIbrach(+), anaPAEST and MONE, or BTDFPM for short (and thereby a simple notational system inviting further research into forms and functions). This BTDFPM notation is easily converted into an {\textquoteleft}embodied{\textquoteright} oral version (and vice versa!), still further enhancing the analyst{\textquoteright}s rhythmic sophistication. Speech exhibits a three-tier hierarchy and therefore primary, secondary and tertiary ictuses and grouping dividers.

Taking lines 6 and 7 from vBuuren (2015) I shall illustrate some of this, inviting falsification as always.

}, author = {Lucas van Buuren} }