EAN: 9783034303095

THE RHYTHM OF SPEECH VERSE AND VOCAL MUSIC A NE...

This book represents a step forward into the development of text-setting studies from an
Optimality Theory perspective  concentrating on the strong bond between the rhythm of spoken
language and that of text set to music. It provides an overview of the prosodic characteristics
of spoken English and Spanish (both synchronic and diachronic) as well as the evolution of
their standard versification systems in order to explore the systematic application of a number
of text-setting Optimality Theory constraints to a large corpus of English and Spanish folk and
art songs. The theoretical and empirical analysis of the song corpus is developed to raise
interest in the study of suprasegmental phonology from an interdisciplinary point of view 
presenting vocal music as a firm locus for the study of prosody  as well as to determine the
degree of accuracy of the OT-based theories argued for in the existing literature.

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