Les modèles métriques dans la poésie de tradition orale et leur traitement musical

The emergence of verse templates through iterated learning

“…namely through nonsense syllables which are used to explicitly represent, communicate or realise verse templates and their internal divisions. English typically represents a weak-strong pattern with the syllables da-dum (Fabb & Halle 2008); in Tashlhiyt Berber, verse lines can be composed by using a set of syllables for strong positions (ay, lay(l), day(l)), and a different one for weak positions (a, la(l), da(l)) (Jouad & Lortat-Jacob 1982, Dell & Elmedlaoui 2008. Similar systems of mnemonic syllables are used in Hindustani and Karnatic music (Clayton 2000, Reina 2013, and…”