Chaucer and the Study of Prosody.
- Author / Editor
- Halle, Morris, and Samuel Jay Keyser.
Chaucer and the Study of Prosody.
- Published
- College English 28 (1966): 187-219.
- Description
- Explores the assumptions about stress that underlie prosodic scansion, and demonstrates that Chaucer's decasyllabic verse is built upon a contrastive rather than an absolute distinction between stressed and unstressed syllables. Considers elision, the pronunciation of final-"e," the influence of French accent, and Chaucer's artful manipulations of various "conditions" of spoken Middle English, drawing examples for various works.
- Contributor
- Keyser, Samuel Jay.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies