lm1~\?J7tmw»'4Agw7vrr.WlWr9.\qa%L KATURE OE‘ TEE I{l{§€‘-LEAR STRESS RIFLE GEGRGE Eigxoye 3;q ll: 2;. recezze ;{}2.§a€iq3 Eiresnao claims to have shown that the Egelear Stress Rule ajeplies within the Sj;’I:i2.{3‘€ie3 cycle; rather than to eufiece streettize. this reeolt, she claims to heaze fozztxi evidegee for the existence of eee§ etmeoure, €01‘ the lexiealist hypothesis, and against Mo{§s.Wley’s E9?) analysis of English as a V80 language. B’s claims are analysed here in detail. It is shown that her claims are without a basis in foot: the Nuclear Stress Rule is 2. global rule which applies to surface structure, but it has a. global environment referring to other levels.* Bresnem 1971 has presented evidence that indicates the following: (1) The Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR) must either (a) be ordered before Question Formation (QF) and Relative Clause Formatio11 (RCF), or (b) be 22. global rule with an environment ordered before QF and RCF. B claims to have shown la, as well as the following: (2) Question Formation and Relative Clause Formation are cyclic rules. (3) NSR applies within the syntactic cycle. (4) Evidence for the existence of deep structure and for the lexiealist hy~ pothesis is provided by 3. (5) McCawley’s 1970 analysis of English as a VSO language is disconfirmed by 3. I would like to provide evidence for the following: (6) The evidence for proposition 1 is by no means clear; at the very least there are grave difficulties with la, though some form of 1b seems to be viable (cf. §6 below). (7) B’s argument for 2 does not hold; there is still no evidence for it. (8) Since 3 depends on 2, there is no evidence for 3. (9) Since 4 depends on 3, there is no evidence for 4. Moreover, even if 3 were true, B’s argument for 4 would not hold. (10) Since 5 depends on 3, there is no evidence for 5. 1. B notes that NSR gives results like the following in simple sentences: (11) a. Sana read some} b. Sam read some books. Therefore; ‘:33’ her account, it will stress the following sentences correctly if it 339/fora: QF: e. W1:-aft. did. See} read? '33. Wlaieh “soaks did S311’: read? q This wwk was erxgsptarieziz ie gait i131 Gram: Cz'S~‘2§%3§ from are iiieiional Science Fonnda» {ion to the §Jni*—;e,rsii§; of Bziiefigan. I are grateful to eemee ‘1¥§eCa‘e'le3g for detailed corn» Eneais on an e:2.riie:* of tleis pager; 1 t’;:pl)ga:a;3l;ieal eiroplieitgg B:*es::an’e seperior numerals 1, 2, 3 are replaced in this ‘g}&§}€°E“ 35,2}: the acute, and graxre accents :espes1:ivel3—'.—§i;d,} 285