1. Estructura del vers i variació lingüística en els poemes d'Ausiàs March (1400-1459).
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MARTÍNEZ, JESÚS JIMÉNEZ
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RHYME , *VOWELS , *RHYTHM , *PRONUNCIATION , *ORTHOGRAPHY & spelling , *NURSERY rhymes - Abstract
The goal of this paper is to show how different aspects of meter, such as syllable count, rhyme and rhythmic patterns, can be used to obtain information about linguistic variation during earlier periods. The study analyses certain formal variants in the poems of Ausiàs March (1400-1459) which serve to meet the metric requirements of the line. Regarding syllable count, we focus on the treatment of vowel sequences with decreasing sonority as hiatuses or diphthongs: despite the overwhelming majority of hiatuses, the data suggest that some modern-day constraints were already active in March's time, such as the tendency to avoid diphthongs in vowel sequences close to the main stress. Rhyme and rhythm may also indicate the correct pronunciation and spelling for some dubious words, such as the quality of mid vowels or the stress location in doublets like ésser~esser 'to be'. Finally, the analysis of rhythm reveals the need for a certain relativity in the concept of tonicity due to the behaviour of rhythmically ambiguous elements, including the relative què 'which'. In this case, though, the information also flows in the opposite direction, i.e., from the language to the meter, since the distribution of ambiguous elements, with a clear tendency to gravitate toward low-prominence positions, helps us to understand the relationships of prominence among the different parts of the verse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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- 2022
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