Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics  

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Ryan, Kevin M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 28 no. 03 (Dec. 2011), page 413-454.
Fulltext: Ryan_Kevin_M, p. 413-454.pdf (710.13KB)

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Homeric Greek, Kalevala Finnish, Old Norse and Middle Tamil are all languages in which weight is claimed to be exclusively binary in the poetic metrics. As I demonstrate through corpus studies of these traditions, the poets were sensitive to additional grades of weight, such that finely articulated continua of syllable weight can be inferred from distributional asymmetries in the metres. Across all four languages, the scales are strongly correlated (for example, in each, C0V

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