Weight ordering preferences appear to function in opposite directions in verse and language. While linguistic expressions, in both syntax and phonology, typically display a “long-last” effect (Cooper and Ross 1975), stanza forms often show the the opposite, “short-last” structure. This effect has been called “saliency” in previous literature (Hayes and MacEachern 1996; Kiparsky 2006). In this paper I address this apparent discrepancy between the behaviour of verse and language. I argue that “saliency” is not a primitive in the theory, but can be derived from more basic mechanisms that allow grouping structure to be signalled, and show that “short-last” structures are optimal under the conditions of metrical verse that possesses parallelism.

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诗句和语言的最终配重效果

权重排序首选项似乎在经文和语言上以相反的方向起作用。语言表达在语法和语音学上通常表现出“长久”效应（Cooper and Ross 1975），节的形式通常表现出相反的“短后”结构。在以前的文献中，这种效应被称为“显着性”（Hayes和MacEachern，1996； Kiparsky，2006）。在本文中，我解决了诗句和语言行为之间的明显差异。我认为“显着性”在理论上不是原始的，而是可以从允许分组结构被发信号的更基本的机制中衍生而来，并表明“短尾”结构在具有平行性的格律经文的条件下是最佳的。