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Authors: | Rainsford, Thomas |
Title: | Syllable structure and prosodic words in Early Old French |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
metadata.ubs.publikation.typ: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
metadata.ubs.publikation.seiten: | 63-89 |
metadata.ubs.publikation.source: | Papers in historical phonology 5 (2020), S. 63-89 |
URI: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-ds-153641 http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/15364 http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-15345 |
ISBN: | 2399-6714 |
Abstract: | This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the phonotactics of syllable rhymes based on all unique tokens in two Early Old French texts. Based on the data from this single, conservative variety, I develop Jacobs’ (1994) proposal that the Old French stress rule is underlyingly trochaic and that word- inal stress is caused by the presence of an empty-headed final syllable. I argue that this analysis can only be valid while words with final stress systematically end in a consonant that can, and often must, be parsed as the onset to an empty-headed syllable. Although this is not the case in most later varieties of Old French, the prediction is borne out by our data. I conclude by examining the implications of this analysis for the accentuation and phonotactics of monosyllables and for the study of prosodic change in Old French. |
Appears in Collections: | 09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät |
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