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Generative Metrics: An Overview

This overview article covers the field of metrics as a branch of linguistics, focusing on the generative tradition. A brief outline of the basic ideas of foundational papers by Halle & Keyser and Kiparsky is followed by a discussion of three theoretical issues: the nature of representations; gradience and variation; and the interface of metrics with phonology. The last section covers theoretical approaches to typology.