A Central Metrical Prototype for English Iambic Tetrameter Verse : Evidence from Chaucer's Octosyllabic Lines
- Author / Editor
- Li, Xingzhong.
A Central Metrical Prototype for English Iambic Tetrameter Verse : Evidence from Chaucer's Octosyllabic Lines
- Published
- Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), pp. 315-41.
- Series
- Topics in Linguistics, no. 45.
- Description
- Statistical evidence--including stress patterns, line divisions, pauses, missing and extrametrical syllables, and syntactical inversion--from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines corroborates a proposed prototype of iambic tetrameter and encourages us to regard Chaucer's lines as "gradient-based iambic tetrameter."
- Contributor
- Curzan, Anne, ed.
- Emmons, Kimberly, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.