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In favour of layered feet: A response to Golston

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In this response we argue that the factorial typology predicted in Martínez-Paricio & Kager (2015), which representationally relies on the existence of internally layered ternary feet, is complete and accurate. We demonstrate it does not suffer from the problematic cases of overgeneration pointed out by Golston (this issue). Additionally, we corroborate the idea that the internally layered ternary foot is a metrical representation that is typologically warranted for stress phenomena as well as for segmental and tonal metrically conditioned distributions. We suggest that Golston's claim that "no stress system requires internally layered ternary feet" appears to be too strong and is not empirically substantiated. En aquest article-resposta argumentem que la tipologia factorial predita a Martínez-Paricio i Kager (2015), basada representacionalment en l'existència de peus ternaris amb estructura interna binaria, és completa i precisa. Demostrem que no prediu els sistemes accentuals assenyalats per Golston (aquest volum) com a problemàtics. A més, corroborem que el peu ternari amb estructura interna binaria és una representació mètrica adequada tipològicament, tant des del punt de vista accentual, com des del punt de vista de les distribucions tonals i segmentals condicionades mètricament. Finalment, suggerim que l'afirmació de Golston «cap sistema accentual requereix peus ternaris» sembla massa forta i no està corroborada empíricament.