![]() ![]() This paper considers the development of these differences from the point of view of the phonological theory of meter proposed in Hanson & Kiparsky (1996), and gives a precise and explanatory account of what was borrowed from Italian and why in English it changed the way it did. The modern English iambic pentameter was modeled on the Italian endeca-sillabo, but differs from it with respect to defining characteristics of both stress placement and syllable count. This allows for a more systematic understanding of how words and tunes are to be aligned in a given tradition. ![]() In contrast with previous textsetting studies, our approach does not use pre-defined mismatches, but induces the avoided stress / prominence combinations in a data-driven way. The main findings are the following: (1) the combination of linguistic stress and metrical prominence moving in opposite directions is avoided (2) textsetting rules do not apply across phrases, but they do across words (3) the avoidance of stress and prominence combinations depends on factors such as phrase-finality and the presence of melisma. The present study addresses the textsetting rules of Dutch using a large dataset of folk songs and a novel methodology. In languages with word stress such as Eng-lish, it has been shown that the metrical prominence of melodies is aligned in a non-random way with the lyrics' word stress (Dell & Halle 2009). ![]() The study of textsetting describes how words and tunes are aligned in songs. ![]()
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