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Published: 22 July 2021
...Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart . Danuta Mirka, Oxford University Press.
© Oxford University Press 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197548905.003.0004 The chapter is devoted to hypermetrical irregularities caused by techniques of phrase linkage, including overlap and elision...
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The Scrape of Metaphor
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Shadi Bartsch
Published: 27 March 2015
... its serious teaching as well. Persius, however, abjures any concession to the pleasure of the reader; his verse, we hear, is full of the acris iunctura, the “harsh joining.” While some scholars have taken this to be a reference to word order in his verse and the presence of elision, it is more likely...
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Published online: 17 December 2015
Published in print: 01 November 2015
... of concerns in each of the blocks of text that make up a “Canterbury” performance. For the Clerk, the idea is transition, for the Merchant it is revision and reticence, for the Miller it is repetition, for the Franklin it is interruption and elision, for the Wife of Bath it is self-authorship...
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Published: 24 May 2018
..., elision, and hypermetrical transition are discussed with regard to their typical formal roles in Haydn’s symphonies, and illustrated with examples from several of these. Haydn typically places hypermetrical transitions at the beginnings of subordinate themes even in the absence of medial caesuras...
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Published: 24 May 2018
... of cadential elision in preventing closure. The denial of closure via elision is important at the end of the sonata form expositions. Separation of rhythmic, formal, and tonal closure as distinct phenomena informs recent debates on this topic. Beethoven’s use of hypermetrical means to deny closure...
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Published: 01 July 2015
... simile est removal of contraction 2 (Leo) [1.4.3] similǐs est > * similǐ(s) est > *similĕ est > similest ‘elision’ of final -s (?) opening of final -ǐ similist restoration of the masculine/ feminine ending -i ...
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Elision, the neglected link in French phonology
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John N. Green and Marie-Anne Hintze
Published: 20 June 2024
...John N. Green and Marie-Anne Hintze, Elision, the neglected link in French phonology . In: Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French . Edited by: Janice Carruthers, Mairi McLaughlin, and Olivia Walsh, Oxford University Press. © John N. Green and Marie-Anne...
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The Phonology of Japanese
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Laurence Labrune
Published online: 24 May 2012
Published in print: 23 February 2012
... inventory, the phonology of high vowel devoicing, insertion and elision, prosodic lengthening and shortening, and the status of diphthongs, it moves to the consonant system and the phonology of voicing, and to the so-called moraic segments. The chapter dedicated to the prosodic units provides a detailed...
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Proclisis and enclisis in early Gallo-Romance: Evidence from sandhi phenomena
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Thomas Rainsford
Published: 20 June 2024
.../9780192894366.003.0002 This chapter investigates the prosodic grouping of function words in the earliest northern Gallo-Romance (GR) texts and the consequences of this grouping for the morphophonology of clitic pronouns. The chapter looks first at active sandhi processes such as unstressed vowel elision and linking [ð...
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Spelling and pronunciation: Lettraghey as fockley magh
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Jennifer Kewley Draskau
Published: 01 June 2008
...This chapter discusses spelling and pronunciation in Manx. It covers the spelling system; regional variations in pronunciation; consonants; stress; elision; and intonation. Manx Gaelic spelling system pronunciation consonants stress elision intonation The spelling system of Manx differs...
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Published: 12 December 2008
... from phonetic representations. The chapter describes the metrically relevant properties of the line in the context of the prosodic theory of William Idsardi and shows that this innovation offers important insights into all kinds of metrical phenomena in poetry. It focuses on elision, ancipitia...
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French in Mauritius: A speaker from Quatre-Bornes
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Gudrun Ledegen and Chantal Lyche
Published: 28 July 2016
... of an undue number of elisions or assimilations. The excerpt includes a wide variety of linguistic traits typical of Mauritius French, most of which can be attributed to Creole influence: absence of determiners, absence of prepositions à and de , a specific use...
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Vowels
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Laurence Labrune
Published: 23 February 2012
...Chapter 2 presents the five vowels /a, i, u, e, o/ and their corresponding long vowels in Tôkyô Japanese, with a look at other modern dialectal systems and the ancient Kyôto language. The special status of the high vowels /i/ and /u/, which undergo frequent elisions or insertions, and are the locus...
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Published: 19 January 2011
... für Mignon (1849), shows how the composer represents his reading of the text's poetic content using a range of hypermetric devices: hypermetric dissonance, hypermetric elision, and an alternation between two rates of hypermeter, with hyperbars at one rate being twice as long as those...
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5 Finiteness in gapping
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Sophie Repp
Published: 22 January 2009
...Chapter 5 delivers a new semantic definition of gapping: it is the referential anchoring of a sentence which is elided in the second conjunct of a gapping sentence. It shows that gapping does not necessarily involve the elision of the finite verb but can also occur in non‐finite structures...
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Phrase Rhythm
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Ken Stephenson
Published: 11 July 2002
... the extension-overlap model, first-downbeat model, and the elision model. Rock acceptance as academic subject Drum patterns Melodic motion Melodic rest defined Meter determination Motion to rest ratio Perception of meter Phrase length determination Transcription difficulties of 3 1 model Breathing...
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Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms: A Case Study in Romantic Formenlehre
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Benedict Taylor
Published: 10 February 2022
...Benedict Taylor, Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms In: Rethinking Brahms . Edited by: Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197541739.003.0012 The parallels...
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Published: 20 July 2023
... in vowel sounds. So strong is this feature, that a word-final consonant sound is drawn into the next word that begins with a vowel. Consonant linking (enchaînement consonantique ), vocalic elision (élision vocalique ), and liaison ensure that this ‘consonant...
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Published: 28 April 2010
...This is the first of five chapters on the songs of individual composers. Whereas narrative accounts of the nineteenth‐century Lied typically begin with Franz Schubert, here phrase expansion, hypermeter, elision, and rhythmic flow in songs by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn provide a point of departure...
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Sandhi -Changes in External Combination
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Andrew L Sihler
Published: 05 January 1995
...-the familiar elision, crasis, and so on-are observed in our literary texts; but many others, common in inscriptions (and humdrum in substance), are disregard- ed. In L literary texts there is even less of such matters. But in both languages there are some recognized doublets, parallel in nature and extent...