The Iambic Law: Quantitative Adjustment in Typological Perspective
Many processes of Quantitative Adjustment (QA) in natural language are seen to follow from the Iambic/Trochaic Law (ITL), a basic principle of rhythmic organisation which favours quantitative evenness in trochaic systems and quantitative unevenness in iambic systems. The present paper takes issue wi...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1242 |