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The “breath group” is a division recognized by phoneticians of all schools. In the breath group the dynamic pattern which constitutes the “group” is made by the word accents. That the syllables have varying degrees of stress, and that they are subordinated and grouped in rhythmic forms has been a commonplace since Aristotle. In poetry we have called the rhythmic unit-groups “feet” and have noted the regular patterns; feet may also be observed in prose, following Aristotle, but the patterns are not regular.
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Stetson, R.H. (1928). Word Accent and its Relation to the Syllable and to the Breath Group. In: Motor Phonetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3356-0_7
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