The Hoccleve Holographs and Hoccleve's Metrical Practice: More Than Counting Syllables?

Jefferson, Judith A.

doi:10.1353/pgn.2000.0025

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“…Yet the problems of final - e 's elision, optional inflectional syncope, stem-internal and compound-internal syncope, apocope in proclitics, [ɪ, ʊ] + [ə] contraction (synizesis), persist and appear to be much more text- and author-variable in the fifteenth century. Two of the leading poets in the fifteenth-century illustrate the hazards of any automated data-collection: Hoccleve counted ten syllables per line meticulously (Jefferson 2000), but the iambic rhythm takes a back seat; and Lydgate adds idiosyncratic patterns such as pre-sonorant disyllabic long vowels in monosyllables, e.g., gold , child , fire , and schwa epenthesis in some [l] + [obstr.] coda clusters: -lk, -lf , thus follek for folk , selef for self.…”

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“…22 Genesis and Exodus a.1325 (c.1250) has 7 instances of désert n. 'a barren area ' (975, 1248, 2770, 2852, 3308, 3734, 3883) versus 9 instances of desért (2737,2867,3296,3352,3562,3646,3744,3845,3879) text-and author-variable in the fifteenth century. Two of the leading poets in the fifteenth-century illustrate the hazards of any automated data-collection: Hoccleve counted ten syllables per line meticulously (Jefferson 2000), but the iambic rhythm takes a back seat; and Lydgate adds idiosyncratic patterns such as pre-sonorant disyllabic long vowels in monosyllables, e.g., gold, child, fire, and schwa epenthesis in some [l] + [obstr.] coda clusters: -lk, -lf, thus follek for folk, selef for self.…”

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Early metrical and lexicographical evidence for functional stress-shifts

Minkova¹,

ZHOU²

2022

English Language and Linguistics

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Only three Present-Day English diatones, outlaw, rebel, record, out of the current 235-item list in Hotta (2015), are on record prior to the seventeenth century. Whether this type of functional prosodic contrast was inherited or innovative is controversial. We revisit the Old English metrical evidence for functional stress-shifting and present new attestations of verb–noun pairs in Middle English verse in an effort to establish if the limited inherited stress-shifting model survives, and, if so, whether or how it accommodates the incoming loan vocabulary. The additional verse attestations support the idea of continuity, yet the scarcity of data falls short of statistical verifiability. A search into detailed lexicographical information for 1200–1550 reinforces the hypothesis of continuity by documenting the differential patterns of borrowing of nouns and verbs, prefixed and unprefixed. Taken together, these two sources endorse a proposal that in its earliest stages functional stress-shifting was predicated on prefixation, and that the ongoing conflict between prefixal defooting and Align-L (Root, PrWd) in ME is a necessary component of the diachronic account of English prosody.

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Section: Stress-shifts In Pre-1550 Versementioning

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Early metrical and lexicographical evidence for functional stress-shifts

Minkova¹,

ZHOU²

2022

English Language and Linguistics

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“…?1330, d. 1408) and his disciple Thomas Hoccleve (b. ?1369, d. 1426) both adopted his metre for their English long-line verse, although to Hoccleve ten syllables were clearly much more important than an iambic rhythm (see Jefferson 2000). Chaucer's successor, however, as the most esteemed poet in England was John Lydgate (b.…”

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