On Secondary Stress Treatment in English:
                           A Widget-Based Approach

                                 Eiji Yamada

                                    1998b
 
                             (Fukuoka University)

                                   Abstract
 
           It is pointed out in Yamada (1998a) that neither the purely
          rule-based analysis in Halle and Vergnaud (1987) nor the
          stress checking analysis in Burzio (1994) completely accounts
          for the secondary stress distribution of English words.
               This paper proposes a third method of analysis by intro-
          ducing the new concept of "widgets."  Widgets are defined as
          being basic building parts of phonological rules.  Moreover,
          widgets are ranked with each other.  In other words, rules are
          composed of ranked widgets.  Combination of widgets thus de-
          termines the major function of a given rule.  Both the Secondary
          Stress Rule and Stress Deletion Rule, for example, are ordered
          with each other, and widgets constructing the rules are ranked.

          Keywords: order, rank, rule, stress, widget