Voicing Patterns as One Key to the Pace of Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Oliver, Douglas.
Voicing Patterns as One Key to the Pace of Poetry
- Published
- Journal of Phonetics 12.2 (1984): 115-32.
- Description
- Technical report of a set of acoustic experiments designed to gauge how "voicing duration" interacts with intonation to "give a poetic line much of its 'personality'." One experiment assesses eight readings of a passage from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man"; the other, two translations of three passages from Chaucer's CT. The latter demonstrates that a poem's "movement" is at least "partly the patterns of voiced and voiceless segments."
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