Valencia, España
Metrical phonology deals with rhythmic patterns in natural languages andalso with the stress grid in poetry. According to the basic hypothesis of the optimalmodel we follow (v. Golston, 1998, among others), verse exemplars that meet therequirements of a set of metrical constraints are preferred and, therefore, are predictedto be more frequent. To test this hypothesis, we analyze the alexandrines from Estellés’Llibre de meravelles and show that his metric preferences are grounded on general rhyth-mic constraints whose satisfaction can explain the frequency differences of the attestedverse lines. In particular, we find constraints promoting more eurythmic lines and con-straints which, on the contrary, seem to favor rhythmically worse patterns allowing,though, a larger portion of the vocabulary to fit in the line.
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