Morpheme-Based Rendaku as a Rhythmic Stabilizer in Eastern Old Japanese Poetry

This paper explores the functions of morpheme-based rendaku, or “sequential voicing”, in Eastern Old Japanese poetry, with a focus on its function of maintaining rhythmic stability in poetic verse. It is argued that this function is implemented to avoid a hypermetrical line when no adjacent vowels e...

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Main Author: KUPCHIK, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2012-05-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/66/68