Table of transcribed forms for: Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French (doi:10.18710/XYMXPC)

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Table of transcribed forms for: Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French

doi:10.18710/XYMXPC

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Rainsford, Thomas, 2020, "Table of transcribed forms for: Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French", https://doi.org/10.18710/XYMXPC, DataverseNO, V1

Table of transcribed forms for: Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French

doi:10.18710/XYMXPC

Rainsford, Thomas (University of Stuttgart)

University of Stuttgart

DataverseNO

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Rainsford, Thomas

Rainsford, Thomas

2020-06-22

https://doi.org/10.18710/XYMXPC

Arts and Humanities, syllable, Old French, stress, prosody

<b>Description of dataset</b>: Data containing phonologically transcribed forms from two Old French texts, the <i>Life of St. Alexis</i> (AlexisRaM) and the <i>Song of Roland</i> (RolMoign) which form the basis of the analysis in the accompanying paper. Forms, lemmas and morphosyntactic tags were extracted from the <i>Base de français médiéval</i> (http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/). All remaining annotation was semi-automatically added by the author. The scripts used to generate the phonological transcriptions are still under active development and are available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/syllabic-verse-analysis/.

<b>Abstract of related publication</b>: This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the phonotactics of syllable rhymes based on all unique tokens in two Early Old French texts. Based on the data from this single, conservative variety, I develop Jacobs’ (1994) proposal that the Old French stress rule is underlyingly trochaic and that word-final stress is caused by the presence of an empty-headed final syllable. I argue that this analysis can only be valid while words with final stress systematically end in a consonant that can, and often must, be parsed as the onset to an empty-headed syllable. Although this is not the case in most later varieties of Old French, the prediction is borne out by our data. I conclude by examining the implications of this analysis for the accentuation and phonotactics of monosyllables and for the study of prosodic change Old French.

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BFM - Base de Français Médiéval [En ligne] (2019). Lyon: ENS de Lyon, Laboratoire IHRIM, <txm.bfm-corpus.org> [accessed 23 June 2020].

Rainsford, Thomas and Christiane Marchello-Nizia (eds) (2018). La Vie de Saint Alexis. Lyon: ENS de Lyon. Publishes online by the Base de français médiéval, http://catalog.bfm-corpus.org/AlexisRaM [accessed 23 June 2020].

Moignet, Gérard (ed.) (1972). La Chanson de Roland. Paris: Bordas. Published online by the Base de français médiéval, <http://catalog.bfm-corpus.org/roland> [accessed 23 June 2020].

Modern editions of two early 12th-century manuscripts, both reproducing the original manuscript with a minimum of editorial intervention.

Rainsford, Thomas M. (2020). "Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French". In <i>Papers in Historical Phonology</i> 5: 63-89.

10.2218/pihph.5.2020.4433

Rainsford, Thomas M. (2020). "Syllable Structure and Prosodic Words in Old French". In <i>Papers in Historical Phonology</i> 5: 63-89.

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Documentation for the dataset.

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AlexisRaM_forms_utf-8.txt

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Table of transcribed forms from the AlexisRaM text (Rainsford and Marchello-Nizia 2018).

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RolMoign_forms_utf-8.txt

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Table of transcribed forms from the RolMoign text (Moignet 1972).

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