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Excerpt from What Was Ictus in Latin Prosody?
We have already recognized two senses in which the word accent is used. Both, while radically different, have at least this much in common: The 'accented' syllable is the one made prominent in some way in oral utterance.' When the word is spoken, that syllable stands out conspicuous, either by virtue of its stress, i. E. A definite expulsory effort of the lungs, or by virtue of its pitch. To these two varieties of an accented syllable, i. E. A syllable standing out prominently in an uttered word, - to these two conceptions, I ask, may we not add a third? May not a syllable be primarily prominent by virtue of its quantity? That is, in a word like amdw't', for example, may not the rule of the grammarians, that such a word was accented on the penult, simply mean that they felt the quantity of the long penult as making that syllable prominent, without any stress on the one hand or any elevation of pitch on the other? And in words like létm't, lzo'mz'nes, etc., may not the rule that these words were accented on the antepenult simply mean that, in consequence of the short penult, that syllable did not possess any prominence, and hence, after the establishment in Latin of the three-syllable law, the syllable next preceding became the conspicuous one?
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Excerpt from What Was Ictus in Latin Prosody?
We have already recognized two senses in which the word accent is used. Both, while radically different, have at least this much in common: The 'accented' syllable is the one made prominent in some way in oral utterance.' When the word is spoken, that syllable stands out conspicuous, either by virtue of its stress, i. E. A definite expulsory effort of the lungs, or by virtue of its pitch. To these two varieties of an accented syllable, i. E. A syllable standing out prominently in an uttered word, - to these two conceptions, I ask, may we not add a third? May not a syllable be primarily prominent by virtue of its quantity? That is, in a word like amdw't', for example, may not the rule of the grammarians, that such a word was accented on the penult, simply mean that they felt the quantity of the long penult as making that syllable prominent, without any stress on the one hand or any elevation of pitch on the other? And in words like létm't, lzo'mz'nes, etc., may not the rule that these words were accented on the antepenult simply mean that, in consequence of the short penult, that syllable did not possess any prominence, and hence, after the establishment in Latin of the three-syllable law, the syllable next preceding became the conspicuous one?
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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