Optimality Theory, Language Typology, and Universalist Metrics

In Russom (2011), I defended a universalist hypothesis that the constituents of poetic form are abstracted from natural linguistic constituents: metrical positions from phonological constituents, usually syllables; metrical feet from morphological constituents, usually words; and metrical lines from...

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Main Author: Geoffrey Russom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2018-08-01
Series:Studia Metrica et Poetica
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/smp/article/view/14194