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Stray adjunction

PHONOLOGY: a universal convention by which extrametrical units are incorporated into the representation of stress. By convention the extrametrical unit is weak. EXAMPLE: in English the final syllable of a noun is extrametrical. After foot construction and word tree construction, the extrametrical syllable is incorporated into the adjacent foot as a weak member by stray adjunction.


                          /\
                         s  \
          /\		/\   |
	 |  s          |  s  |       
         | /\          |  /\ |
         w s w         w s w w    
         | | |         | | | 
	 ameri<ca>  -> america    

LIT. Hayes, B. (1981)
Liberman, M. and A. Prince (1977)