Theoretical Techniques for the Analysis of Variety in Chaucer's Metrical Stress
- Author / Editor
- Fifield, Merle.
Theoretical Techniques for the Analysis of Variety in Chaucer's Metrical Stress
- Published
- Muncie Ind.: Ball State University, 1973.
- Physical Description
- vi, 41 pp.
- Series
- Ball State Monograph, no. 23.
- Publication in English, no, 17.
- Description
- Seeks objective analysis of the "oral-aural" aspects of word stress and metrical stress in Chaucer's "stress system," commenting on linguistic borrowings, affixing, grammatical function, phonetic juncture, and the difficulties of inferring Middle English stress from modern evidence. Assumes that Chaucer wrote iambic verse and addresses various attempts to codify stress, including the rules of stress asserted by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Language and Word Studies