This paper presents both dictionary evidence and experimental evidence that the quality of a word's final vowel plays a role in assigning main stress in English. Specifically, a final [i] pushes main stress leftwards – three-syllable words ending with [i] have a strong tendency to take antepenultimate stress. This pattern is compared with the Latin Stress Rule for English, according to which words with heavy penultimate syllables should have penultimate stress. Both pressures are shown to be productive in experiments. Two analyses of the final-[i] generalisation are tested, one using the ‘cloned’ constraint Non-finFt[i], and one using the ‘parochial’ constraint Antepenult[i], which directly penalises [i]-final words which do not have antepenultimate stress. Although it is has less typological support, Antepenult[i] is argued for on the grounds that it correctly predicts participants' behaviour on words with both a heavy penult and a final [i], which are extremely rare in the lexicon.

中文翻译：

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英语重音系统中的重音和尾元音

本文提供了字典证据和实验证据，证明单词的最后元音的质量在分配英语中的主要压力方面发挥了作用。具体来说，最后的 [i] 将主重音向左推——以 [i] 结尾的三音节词具有强烈的倒数第二重音倾向。这种模式与英语的拉丁重音规则进行了比较，根据该规则，倒数第二个音节重的单词应该有倒数第二个重音。在实验中，这两种压力都被证明是有效的。测试了对 final-[i] 泛化的两种分析，一种使用“克隆”约束 N在鳍上F吨[i]，还有一个使用“狭隘”约束 A倒数[i]，它直接惩罚没有倒数第二重音的 [i]-final 单词。虽然它的类型支持较少，但 A倒数[i] 之所以被争论，是因为它正确地预测了参与者对带有大倒数和结尾 [i] 的单词的行为，这在词典中极为罕见。