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Accent and metre in French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Roger Pensom
Roger Pensom
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Hertford College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3BW
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Abstract

There is currently no generally accepted theory of metre in French such as the one available for English. Students of French verse-texts look to linguists in vain for a clear decision-procedure for the metrical description of French verse. This essay attempts to derive such a decision-procedure from a historical testing of the hypothesis that the word in French has a prosodic identity and that metre in French can be seen as a structure which orders that identity.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 19 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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