Brett Hyde is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program at Washington University. He has published a series of articles on stress and accent and a book, Layering and Directionality (2016), that have established him as the foremost expert on metrical stress in Optimality Theory.

'In this excellent book, Brett Hyde makes fully accessible to the reader the approach to the analysis of stress and accent that he has meticulously developed throughout his career. Hyde's proposal that the main function of stress and accent patterns is to indicate rich metrical structure will compel everyone, from advanced students to seasoned researchers, to look at these patterns differently.' Eric Baković, Professor, University of California, San Diego

• 1. Noise and timing; 2. Grouping; 3. Typology; 4. Correspondence: map and match; 5. Directionality; 6. Grid well-formedness: clash and lapse; 7. Domain boundaries; 8. Feet; 9. Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index.

Brett Hyde is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program at Washington University. He has published a series of articles on stress and accent and a book, Layering and Directionality (2016), that have established him as the foremost expert on metrical stress in Optimality Theory.

'In this excellent book, Brett Hyde makes fully accessible to the reader the approach to the analysis of stress and accent that he has meticulously developed throughout his career. Hyde's proposal that the main function of stress and accent patterns is to indicate rich metrical structure will compel everyone, from advanced students to seasoned researchers, to look at these patterns differently.' Eric Baković, Professor, University of California, San Diego

• 1. Noise and timing; 2. Grouping; 3. Typology; 4. Correspondence: map and match; 5. Directionality; 6. Grid well-formedness: clash and lapse; 7. Domain boundaries; 8. Feet; 9. Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index.

Brett Hyde is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program at Washington University. He has published a series of articles on stress and accent and a book, Layering and Directionality (2016), that have established him as the foremost expert on metrical stress in Optimality Theory.

'In this excellent book, Brett Hyde makes fully accessible to the reader the approach to the analysis of stress and accent that he has meticulously developed throughout his career. Hyde's proposal that the main function of stress and accent patterns is to indicate rich metrical structure will compel everyone, from advanced students to seasoned researchers, to look at these patterns differently.' Eric Baković, Professor, University of California, San Diego

• 1. Noise and timing; 2. Grouping; 3. Typology; 4. Correspondence: map and match; 5. Directionality; 6. Grid well-formedness: clash and lapse; 7. Domain boundaries; 8. Feet; 9. Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index.