English word stress
Most analyses, such as Halle and Vergnaud (1987) and Hayes (1995), assume that English words are first syllabified, and then word stress is assigned according to the syllable patterns. For syllabification, most analyses follow Kahn (1976) and assume the Maximal Onset rule, according to which intervocalic consonants are syllabified as the onset of the following vowel as far as is allowed by the given language. Some examples are shown in (2), where syllable boundaries are indicated by a dot.(lit1)