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Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author''s own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an

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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Sha ...

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Lexicology. Semantics --- French language --- Français (Langue) --- Lexicography --- Rhyme --- Dictionaries --- History --- Synonyms and antonyms --- Versification --- Lexicographie --- 804.0-6 --- -French language --- -Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Frans: prosodie; metrum; accent --- -Dictionaries --- -History --- -Frans: prosodie; metrum; accent --- 804.0-6 Frans: prosodie; metrum; accent --- -804.0-6 Frans: prosodie; metrum; accent --- Langue d'oïl --- Français (Langue) --- Rhyme&delete& --- Dictionaries&delete& --- Synonyms and antonyms&delete& --- French language - Versification --- French language - Lexicography --- French language - Rhyme - Dictionaries - History --- French language - Synonyms and antonyms - Dictionaries - History

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By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.

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This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. It builds on the premise that alliteration reflects faithfully the acoustic identity and similarity of stressed syllable onsets. Individual chapters cover the history of the velars, the structure and history of vowel-initial syllable onsets, the behaviour of onset clusters, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction (gn-, kn-, hr-, hl-, hn-, hw-, wr-, wl-). Examination of the patterns of group alliteration in Old and Middle English reveals a hierarchy of cluster-internal cohesiveness which leads to new conclusions regarding the causes for the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk- in alliteration. The analysis draws on phonetically based Optimality-Theoretic models. The book presents valuable information about the medieval poetic canon and elucidates the relationship between orality and literacy in the evolution of English verse.

Alliteration --- English language --- -English language --- -802.0-022 --- 802.0-023 --- 802.0-4 --- 802.0-4 Engels: fonetiek fonologie --- Engels: fonetiek fonologie --- 802.0-023 Middelengels --- Middelengels --- 802.0-022 Oudengels --- Oudengels --- Rhyme --- Versification --- Germanic languages --- Phonology --- Phonology, Historical --- Verb --- Alliteratie --- Allitération --- -Rhyme --- -Phonology --- 802.0-022 --- 802.0-4 Engels: fonetiek; fonologie --- Engels: fonetiek; fonologie --- Phonetics, Diachronic --- Phonology, Diachronic --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- Phonology [Historical ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Alliteration. --- Phonology. --- Versification. --- Phonology, Historical.