
Published online:
26 September 2013
Published in print:
12 December 2008
Online ISBN:
9780262274890
Print ISBN:
9780262083799
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2.1 Introduction 2.1 Introduction
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2.2 On Word Stress 2.2 On Word Stress
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2.3 The Strict Meters of English Verse 2.3 The Strict Meters of English Verse
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2.3.1 Elision 2.3.1 Elision
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2.3.2 Ancipitia 2.3.2 Ancipitia
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2.4 Loose Meters in English 2.4 Loose Meters in English
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2.5 In Conclusion 2.5 In Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
2 On Stress and Meter and on English Iambics in Particular
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Published:December 2008
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Halle, Morris, 'On Stress and Meter and on English Iambics in Particular', in Kristin Hanson, and Sharon Inkelas (eds), The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky (Cambridge, MA , 2008; online edn, MIT Press Scholarship Online, 26 Sept. 2013), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262083799.003.0002, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses meter and word stress in language, with an emphasis on English iambic verse. It assumes that feet are computed by a kind of paraphonology which alters the phonological derivations of the language and gives rise to at least one alternative representation that may be different 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, and loose meters in English.
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