The Accentual Structure and Meter of English Verse ( 13th - 19th Centuries )

Tarlinskaja, Marina

doi:10.1515/ling.1976.14.169.41

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“…The second constructor, ‘prose shuffle’, is identical to the previous one, except that it draws words from prose, namely the Caesar and Nepos corpus mentioned above. Finally, ‘prose chunks’ comprises all strings of any number of contiguous whole words from prose that scan as hexameters (on using prose phrases as a baseline to gauge metrical regulation, see Tarlinskaja & Teterina 1974, Devine & Stephens 1976, Tarlinskaja 1976, Gasparov 1980, Biggs 1996, Hall 2006, Hayes & Moore-Cantwell 2011, Bross et al 2014 and Blumenfeld 2015). 8 Only 137 such accidental hexameters are found in 55,751 words of prose.…”

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The stress–weight interface in metre

Ryan

2017

Phonology

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Metres are typically classified as being accentual (mapping stress, as in English) or quantitative (mapping weight, as in Sanskrit). This article treats the less well-studied typology of hybrid accentual-quantitative metres, which fall into two classes. In the first, stress and weight map independently onto the same metre, as attested in Latin and Old Norse. In the second, stress and weight interact, such that weight is regulated more strictly for stressed than unstressed syllables, as illustrated here by new analyses of Dravidian and Finno-Ugric metres. In both of these latter cases (as well as in Serbo-Croatian), strictness of weight-mapping is modulated gradiently by stress level.

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The stress–weight interface in metre

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2017

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“…She thus highlights changes in linguistic methodology, the specific features of verse chosen as objects of study, the parameters employed for the analysis of such features and the ultimate purposes and goals guiding research. Her vast historical knowledge of the field allows her to state with confidence ‘that stressing of English literary verse in its relation to periods and genres, as well as individual styles of poets, was not studied until the 1970s’ (p. 9); in this shift, her own work English Verse: Theory and History (1976) still stands as a landmark. Her comparative remarks on the research carried out by Anglophone and Russian-speaking linguists working on versification within their own literary and linguistic traditions additionally enrich Tarlinskaja’s latest book.…”

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