There is no psychological limit on the duration of metrical lines in performance: Against Turner and Pöppel
Frederick Turner and Ernst Pöppel (1983) proposed that lines of metrical poetry tend to measure three seconds or less when performed aloud, and that the metrical line is fitted to a three second ‘auditory present’ in the brain. In this paper I show that there are faults both in their original argume...
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| Language: | English |
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2013-10-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Literary Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/14 |