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Re: Music and language

#22090 03/12/2001 12:34 PM

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maverick

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English is a stress-timed language

Is this a ghostly remnant of the OE pattern, with verse construction based on stressed lines without much regard for number of syllables? If so, why is it not true of other Germanic PIE languages?

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