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View article: A linguistic investigation of monosyllabic or masculine rhymes in Serbian poetry
A linguistic investigation of monosyllabic or masculine rhymes in Serbian poetry Open
This paper focuses on the prosodic properties of monosyllabic, that is, masculine rhymes in Serbian poetry. Word stress has been identified as a crucial prosodic feature of Serbian rhyme in general, and of masculine rhyme in particular, ba…
View article: A linguistic investigation of disyllabic or feminine rhymes in Serbian poetry
A linguistic investigation of disyllabic or feminine rhymes in Serbian poetry Open
This paper focuses on the prosodic properties of disyllabic, that is to say, feminine rhymes in Serbian poetry. On the basis of a quantitatively analyzed poetic database, which includes eight poets, four from the Romantic and four from the…
View article: Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis
Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis Open
We investigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Our findings challenge the common classification of nasals as intermediate between obstruents and liquids on the sonority hierarchy. Instead,…
View article: Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian
Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian Open
Second position clitics in Serbian are informally characterized in terms of their hosts which correspond to either the first word or the first phrase within some clitic positioning domain. Serbian is a free constituent order language, with…