A prominent syllable or word is said to be " accented " or " tonic "; the latter term does not imply that it carries phonemic tone.
2.
Voiced stops are implosive whenever in the onset of prominent syllables ( especially word-initially ) so that ('beat') is pronounced and ('good') as.
3.
Like Tarlinskaja, he considers that ictus and nonictus ( in his notation "'B "'for " beat " and "'o "'for " offbeat " ) " always " alternate, but matches beats to prominent syllables by allowing offbeat positions to be filled by 0, 1, or 2 syllables ( represented by ? o, and ? respectively ).