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Derek Attridge. collection of utterances in a given language shows certain regularities capable of description , but that a native speaker's knowledge of his language goes beyond any such limited corpus : he can without difficulty ...
Derek Attridge. collection of utterances in a given language shows certain regularities capable of description , but that a native speaker's knowledge of his language goes beyond any such limited corpus : he can without difficulty ...
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... language to language , but it tallies with subjective experience to regard the sequence of syllables as the product of rhythmically - controlled releases of energy . Turning from production to perception , we need to be aware that ...
... language to language , but it tallies with subjective experience to regard the sequence of syllables as the product of rhythmically - controlled releases of energy . Turning from production to perception , we need to be aware that ...
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... language and challenging our assumptions of order and cohesion in the world and in ourselves . The approaches to rhythmically ordered language that we have considered in the previous sections tend to treat its distinctiveness from other ...
... language and challenging our assumptions of order and cohesion in the world and in ourselves . The approaches to rhythmically ordered language that we have considered in the previous sections tend to treat its distinctiveness from other ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse