Dividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verse
The earliest French eight-syllable verse texts show a regular line division after the fourth syllable. This mid-line break becomes less common and disappears over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Both a phonological phrase boundary and a stressed syllable are typically used to mar...
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| description | The earliest French eight-syllable verse texts show a regular line division after the fourth syllable. This mid-line break becomes less common and disappears over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Both a phonological phrase boundary and a stressed syllable are typically used to mark the division. Where the stressed syllable is not word-final, authors choose to displace either the break or the stressed syllable from the mid-line position, with preferences varying by author. The presence of any such tendency to regularize stressed syllable position is argued to show the continued saliency of linguistic stress in twelfth-century French. © The Philological Society 2011. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7a046358-3d00-4f26-9cdd-fa04d269c16f2022-03-26T20:41:05ZDividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verseJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:7a046358-3d00-4f26-9cdd-fa04d269c16fEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Rainsford, TThe earliest French eight-syllable verse texts show a regular line division after the fourth syllable. This mid-line break becomes less common and disappears over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Both a phonological phrase boundary and a stressed syllable are typically used to mark the division. Where the stressed syllable is not word-final, authors choose to displace either the break or the stressed syllable from the mid-line position, with preferences varying by author. The presence of any such tendency to regularize stressed syllable position is argued to show the continued saliency of linguistic stress in twelfth-century French. © The Philological Society 2011. |
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| title | Dividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verse |
| title_full | Dividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verse |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Dividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verse |
| title_short | Dividing lines: The Changing syntax and prosody of the mid-line break in Medieval French octosyllabic verse |
| title_sort | dividing lines the changing syntax and prosody of the mid line break in medieval french octosyllabic verse |
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