Chaucer's Twelve 'Long' and 'Short' Vowels: the Evidence from the Rhymes in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Yerkes, David.
Chaucer's Twelve 'Long' and 'Short' Vowels: the Evidence from the Rhymes in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 252-74.
- Description
- An examination of Skeat's Rime-Index to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" shows that "vowel length is an unneeded hypothesis" and Chaucer's vowels may be classified solely on the basis of "quality, not quantity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Style and Versification
- Language and Word Studies