1994
DOI: 10.1075/dia.11.1.05min
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Syllable Weight, Prosody, and Meter in Old English

Abstract: SUMMARYNearly all recent studies of Old English prosody have argued that main stress is fixed by phonological rules which make reference to syllable weight. We claim that such arguments are wrong, partly because they depend on still dubious assumptions about the scansion of Old English verse, and partly because the hypotheses they construct violate an essential axiom of prosodie theory, that a single syllable is the domain of stress. Stress assignment rules based on morphological properties are both simpler an… Show more

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“…Most frequently, examples in the literature consist of languages that require roots to be stressed. For example, Minkova and Stockwell (1994) show that roots must be stressed in Old English, while Riad (1992) makes a similar claim for some of the Nordic languages. Both works rely on historical data for these claims.…”
Section: Decomposing the Morpheme-to-stress Principlementioning
confidence: 82%
“…Most frequently, examples in the literature consist of languages that require roots to be stressed. For example, Minkova and Stockwell (1994) show that roots must be stressed in Old English, while Riad (1992) makes a similar claim for some of the Nordic languages. Both works rely on historical data for these claims.…”
Section: Decomposing the Morpheme-to-stress Principlementioning
confidence: 82%
“…I will propose that this difference is due to the different prosodic prominence of the indefinite article and the possessive pronoun. Some information on the prosodic prominence of different categories can be obtained by looking at their behavior in verse, though some caution is necessary, for meter and prosodic structure of the language are not one and the same thing (Minkova & Stockwell, 1994;Minkova, 1996). In verse, the indefinite article never bears stress and never alliterates, while the possessive pronoun, though often unstressed, can be 'promoted' and is even found to alliterate, not only when used pronominally, as in (2), but also when followed by a noun, as in (3):(2) 'Mary' quoþ þat oþer mon, 'myn is bihynde' (GGK 1942) (3) (a) ur myt of Morgne la Faye, þat in my hous lenges (GGK 2446) (b) Bot make to the mancioun and that is my wylle CLN 309These facts certainly suggest that there is a difference in the prosodic status of the indefinite article and the possessive pronoun.…”
Section: Stage 5 (1570-)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…McCully & Hogg (1990), on the contrary, argue that prefixes to verbs are extrametrical and are invisible for stress assignment. Minkova (1997) and Minkova & Stockwell (1994) have also argued that stress is morphological in Old English. Under this view, prefixes in nouns are considered part of the root.…”
Section: Stress On Prefixed Words In the History O F English And Dutchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While most scholars claim that Old English was not a quantity-sensitive language (cf. Halle & Keyser 1971, Minkova & Stockwell 1994, Minkova 1997, others have argued that stress in Old English was quantity-sensitive (Dresher & Lahiri 1991, Lahiri & Dresher 1999, and Lahiri & Fikkert 1999. Under the latter view, Dresher & Lahiri (1991) …”
Section: Word Stress In the History O F English And Dutchmentioning
confidence: 99%