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  <Title>Formal Properties of Metrical Structure</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="329" end_page="330" type="concl">
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have seen that three more or less popular representational systems in modern phonology are notational variants of each other in most  important ways: these are bracketed grid theory, Dependency Phonology and Government Phonology. The basic ideas underlying each of these frameworks are government/dependency on the one hand and the division of a structure into lines on the other.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The similarity between the frameworks is obscured mainly by the immense differences in notation; but we have shown that the algebraic systems underlying these formalisms is basically the same.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In \[Maxwell, 1992\] it is shown that the differences between Dependency Graphs and X-bar structures as used in generative syntax are minimal. It remains to be shown whether there are any major formal differences between the bracketed grids that are presented in this paper and the 'X-bar-structures-cure-lines' as they are represented in \[Levin, 1985\] and \[Hermans, 1990\].</Paragraph>
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