Example (metrical tree)

Here is an example of a metrical tree of the word metricality:



On the word and foot level, s and w indicate relative stress. The w indicates weaker prominence, and the s indicates relative stronger prominence.The internal syllable structure in the above figure has been omitted and is represented by triangles. Within the syllable, s and w refer to stronger and weaker degrees of sonorance, not stress, and s corresponds to the syllable nucleus, which is the most sonorant segment in a syllable.In metrical trees, the strongest unit of the word is the one that is dominated by s all the way up the tree.