LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 LINGUISTIC RHYTHM 1 YU / LAMONT APRIL 05, 2018
� 2 KEEPING THE BEAT IN LANGUAGE
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 3 METRICAL THEORY AND METRICS Bruce Hayes Russ Schuh http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/ http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/RememberingRuss/
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 4 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. What defines the “beat” in this poem? Lord Byron http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zpj3cwx/revision
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 5 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB The As syr ian came down like the wolf on the fold , And his co horts were gleam ing in pur ple and gold , And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls night ly on deep Gali lee . What defines the “beat” in this poem? Lord Byron http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zpj3cwx/revision
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 6 LIMERICK BY LAMONT What defines the “beat” in this poem? http://specgram.com/CLXXIII.4/04.linguimericks21.html
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 7 BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH What defines the “beat” in this poem? https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 8 ANAPESTIC TETRAMETER
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 9 ANAPESTIC TETRAMETER https://youtu.be/jTrs2-U5NeM
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 10 HAUSA SPEECH SOUNDS
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 11 HAUSA What defines the “beat” in this poem?
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 12 HAUSA SONGS: JAWABIN AURE http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ms_1995_DM_aure.pdf
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 13 HAUSA SONGS: AUREN DOLE http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ms_1995_DM_aure.pdf
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 14 METER IN HAUSA What defines the “beat” in this poem?
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 15 VOWEL LENGTH IN HAUSA http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/handouts/02_Hausa_phonology.pdf
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 16 COMPARING ENGLISH AND HAUSA ▸ How many syllables are in a line in the English meter? ▸ How many syllables are in a line in the Hausa meter? The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/Papers/ Kano_2014_Chadic_quantitative_meters.pdf
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 17 METER IN HAUSA What defines the “beat” in this poem?
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 18 PHRASE-FINAL VOWEL LENGTH IN HAUSA http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/handouts/02_Hausa_phonology.pdf
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 19 PHONOLOGICAL GENERALIZATIONS Poetry can reveal abstract generalizations about sound patterns that speakers have in their heads! ▸ Stress ▸ “Quantity”/“weight”: the syllable, the mora ▸ Prosodic position
� 20 RHYTHM CLASSES
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 21 TWO RHYTHM CLASSES ▸ Stress-timed : equal durations between stresses ▸ e.g. English, German, Dutch ▸ “Morse code” rhythm ▸ Syllable-timed : syllables are of equal duration ▸ e.g. French, Spanish, Catalan ▸ “Machine gun” rhythm
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 22 MORSE CODE VS. MACHINE GUN http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Morse/Archive/5%20WPM/170104_05WPM.mp3 http://soundbible.com/1201-Automatic-Machine-Gun-3x.html
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 � 23 RAMUS PERCEPTION EXPERIMENTS AUDIO http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/resynth/ecoute.htm
� 24 EXAM 2 REVIEW
� 25 FINAL PROJECT BRAINSTORM
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