An analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poems from the perspective of metrical phonology
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Metrical phonology deals with conventional phonological rules that govern verse language. Hayes and MacEachern (1998) and Kiparsky (2006) demonstrate that constraint-based OT frameworks can be fruitfully applied to model the metrical phonology of quatrains, a widely used verse tradition in English. However, the application of their analyses was restricted to musical quatrains. This paper extends the partially-ranked constraint analysis of quatrains in Kiparsky (2006) to literary data, namely, the poems of Emily Dickinson. It demonstrates that with some adjustments involving the addition of a well-motivated metrical constraint, the extended analysis can successfully capture not only the typology of attested quatrain types in Dickinson’s work, but also their relative frequencies. The emerging discussion provides a linguistic perspective on how artistic innovations can emerge from a well-regulated metrical grammar.
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Metrical phonology deals with conventional phonological rules that govern verse language. Hayes and MacEachern (1998) and Kiparsky (2006) demonstrate that constraint-based OT frameworks can be fruitfully applied to model the metrical phonology of quatrains, a widely used verse tradition in English. However, the application of their analyses was restricted to musical quatrains. This paper extends the partially-ranked constraint analysis of quatrains in Kiparsky (2006) to literary data, namely, the poems of Emily Dickinson. It demonstrates that with some adjustments involving the addition of a well-motivated metrical constraint, the extended analysis can successfully capture not only the typology of attested quatrain types in Dickinson’s work, but also their relative frequencies. The emerging discussion provides a linguistic perspective on how artistic innovations can emerge from a well-regulated metrical grammar.
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