Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms

Aroui, Jean-Louis; Arleo, Andy

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“…By definition, rhyme occurs when two or more words are phonologically identical from at least the final stressed vowel onward (Kiparsky, 1973, p. 234), but rhyme can also extend over several stressed syllables (Aroui & Arleo, 2009, p. 19f.).…”

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How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception.

Knoop¹,

Blohm²,

Kraxenberger³

2021

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Rhyme occurs when two or more words are phonologically identical from the final stressed vowel onward. However, there are several types of so-called imperfect rhymes in which vocalic and/or consonantal segments are allowed to differ. Some of these types frequently replace perfect rhymes in verse-final positions in the German poetic tradition, which suggests that they are licensed by genre conventions. Thus far, however, there is little empirical investigation into whether or not specific subtypes of imperfect rhymes are actually perceived as rhyming. Using a speeded rhyme judgment task, this study examines (a) how imperfect rhymes are perceived by comparing them to perfect rhymes and nonrhymes and (b) systematic differences between subtypes of imperfect rhyme. Specifically, we studied three subtypes in which the relevant segments differed in terms of vowel roundedness, voicing, and vowel quantity. If participants did not answer the speeded rhyme judgment task within 750 ms, the trial timed out and the next one appeared. We analyzed both rhyme judgments (yes/no) and time-outs (valid/timed-out), the former indexing rhyme acceptability, the latter indexing uncertainty. Our results indicate that imperfect rhymes are less acceptable than perfect rhymes and elicit greater uncertainty in the rhyme judgment task than both perfect rhymes and nonrhymes. Metered verse context increases the acceptability of imperfect rhymes, whereas perfect and nonrhymes were equally acceptable in word pairs and couplets. Furthermore, our results corroborate the notion that the degree of phonological similarity plays a crucial role in the perception of words as rhyming. However, our study does not lend support to the idea that frequent occurrence of specific imperfect rhymes in the poetic canon makes them more acceptable as rhymes.

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Section: Perfect and Imperfect Rhymementioning

confidence: 99%

How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception.

Knoop¹,

Blohm²,

Kraxenberger³

2021

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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B. Elan Dresner et Nila Friedberg, dir. Formal approaches to poetry : Recent developments in metrics. In the series Phonology and Phonetics 11. Berlin/New York : Mouton de Gruyter. 2006. Pp. viii + 314. 132,30 $ US (relié).

Aroui

2007

Can. J. Linguist.

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Ce livre est a la crois6e de deux traditions : la tradition g6n6rative am6ricaine, et la tradition russe, tantot gdneYative, tantot statistique. Certains articles (Nila Friedberg, Daniel Currie Hall) montrent l'interet qu'il y a a fondre ces deux traditions l'une dans I'autre. C6t6 g6n6rativiste, on trouve a plusieurs reprises diverses versions de la theorie de l'optimalite' (Kiparsky, Hammond, Friedberg, Hall). Une consequence indirecte de ces options th6oriques est que les deux langues les plus traities dans le livre sont, de loin, le russe (quatre articles) et l'anglais (six articles). Avec « A modular metrics for folk verse », Paul Kiparsky avance contre Hayes et MacEachern (1998) divers arguments tendant a montrer l'independance de la structure m€trique par rapport a la structure musicale dans la ballade anglaise. On notera que ce rtsultat rejoint les conclusions de travaux consacrds a d'autres corpus (Banti et Giannattasio 1996; Dell et Elmedlaoui 2007). En utilisant une version modified de la th6orie de l'optimalite\ l'article propose un modele du quatrain de la ballade anglaise qui, tout en utilisant moins de contraintes que Hayes et MacEachern, parvient a predire la frequences des formes et a eviter leur surg6n6ration. L'article suivant, « What is "metricality" ? English iambic pentameter », est sign6 Marina Tarlinskaja. Au niveau du texte, la m&ricite' d'un ensemble iambique serait 6tablie par les donn6es statistiques concernant 1'accentuation des positions paires et impaires, et par les jugements d'6poque sur ce qu'est un « good verse » (p. 53). Au niveau du vers, la m&ricite' reposerait sur la connaissance historique des pratiques m&riques et de leurs exceptions. Sont abord6s le fran$ais, l'allemand, le russe, l'italien, le tcheque et l'anglais. L'auteure propose d'expliquer les formes connues des metres iambiques sur la base de criteres m£triques, syntaxiques, lexicaux, s6mantiques, historiques et culturels. La partie semantique traite principalement de l'anglais. Le m6rite de l'article est d'essayer de caractgriser la m&ricite' dans toute sa complexity sans simplification th^orique. L'article de Nigel Fabb, « Generated metrical form and implied metrical form », reprend certains elements de Fabb (2002). II s'agit de d6montrer qu'en m6trique les regies relevent d'une th6orie gdn^rative, et les tendances d'une th6orie pragmatique. Le probleme est que m£me les 616ments qui sont pr6sent6s comme des regies pr6sentent des exceptions. Ainsi, Fabb nous dit que « In English iambic pentameter, a stressed syllable must be in an

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The stress–weight interface in metre

Ryan

2017

Phonology

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Metres are typically classified as being accentual (mapping stress, as in English) or quantitative (mapping weight, as in Sanskrit). This article treats the less well-studied typology of hybrid accentual-quantitative metres, which fall into two classes. In the first, stress and weight map independently onto the same metre, as attested in Latin and Old Norse. In the second, stress and weight interact, such that weight is regulated more strictly for stressed than unstressed syllables, as illustrated here by new analyses of Dravidian and Finno-Ugric metres. In both of these latter cases (as well as in Serbo-Croatian), strictness of weight-mapping is modulated gradiently by stress level.

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Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms

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How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception.

How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception.

B. Elan Dresner et Nila Friedberg, dir. Formal approaches to poetry : Recent developments in metrics. In the series Phonology and Phonetics 11. Berlin/New York : Mouton de Gruyter. 2006. Pp. viii + 314. 132,30 $ US (relié).

The stress–weight interface in metre

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