Morpheme-Based Rendaku as a Rhythmic Stabilizer in Eastern Old Japanese Poetry
This paper explores the functions of morpheme-based rendaku, or “sequential voicing”, in Eastern Old Japanese poetry, with a focus on its function of maintaining rhythmic stability in poetic verse. It is argued that this function is implemented to avoid a hypermetrical line when no adjacent vowels e...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/66 |