Babcock's Curve and the Problem of Chaucer's Final '-E'
- Author / Editor
- Guthrie, Steven R.
Babcock's Curve and the Problem of Chaucer's Final '-E'
- Published
- English Studies 69 (1988): 386-95.
- Description
- Consideration of the phonological environments in which C. F. Babcock's oft-cited study of 1914 found apocopated '-e' in five of Chaucer's poems, from BD through FranT, considerably reduces the number of clear cases of apocope but supports her general conclusion that the rate marks a stylistic difference in Chaucer's early and late poetry and that of the middle period.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.