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How Not to Introduce Blues Prosody:
, 2019This article delivers a two-pronged intervention into blues prosody. First, it argues that scholars have repeatedly misidentified the metrical organization of blues poems by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown.
Michael Skansgaard
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A Prosody of Free Verse: Explorations in Rhythm
, 2016There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms ...
Richard Andrews
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Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian
, 2021The prosodic systems of the world’s languages vary widely in their complexity. In this paper, we report on a prosodic pattern in Žiri Slovenian, which displays an intricate set of interactions between tone, stress, quantity, and vowel quality.
G. Beguš, P. Jurgec
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Performance Research, 2012
Using work done by the poet Douglas Oliver in Poetry and Narrative in Performance on the ways in which any reading ‘performs’ poetry, this essay opens up a meditation on the poetic foot and its entailment in bodily repetitions and established performance behaviours.
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Using work done by the poet Douglas Oliver in Poetry and Narrative in Performance on the ways in which any reading ‘performs’ poetry, this essay opens up a meditation on the poetic foot and its entailment in bodily repetitions and established performance behaviours.
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Stress or intonational prominence? Word accent in Kazakh and Uyghur
Turkic Languages, 2016This paper investigates word stress/prominence in two Turkic languages, specifically Kazakh and Uyghur, and challenges the widespread assumption that the Foot is a universal constituent of the Prosodic Hierarchy (see e.g.
Öner Özçelik
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The primacy of the weak in Carib prosody
, 2014Accents are normally associated with the lexically stressed syllable of a word.The Carib language (Cornelis Kondre dialect) is an exception. Instead of association,we there find dissociation of accent and stress.
B. J. Hoff
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William Carlos Williams' Triadic-Line Verse: An Analysis of Its Prosody
, 1989Williams' triadic-line verse constitutes a relatively small portion of his poetic work--two books of the Fifties, The Desert Music (except for its long title poem) and Journey to Love, plus parts of Paterson V.' Nonetheless, the poet's statements of the ...
Eleanor Berry
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Syllable Cut Prosody in Early Middle English.
, 2000Previous studies have been largely unsuccessful in investigating Middle English quantity changes in terms of moraic or foot structure. The present study approaches quantity changes as the consequence of the phonologization of a syllable cut prosody ...
R. Murray
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The North Atlantic and the Arctic
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, 2020Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones.
K. Árnason +5 more
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Effects of speaking rate and paragraph structure on the production of sentence prosody
, 1994Four speakers read each of eight paragraphs at four different speaking rates: Normal speaking rate and half, twice, and three times the normal rate.
S. Speer +3 more
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