서울대학교 언어학과 8차 언어학 콜로퀴엄 (9월 6일 금 오전 10시, 신앙관 4동 302호)
2024.08.16 17:10
안녕하십니까. 서울대학교 언어학과에서는 그리스 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki의 Prof. Nina Topintzi를 초청하여 2024년도 제 8차 언어학 콜로퀴엄을 아래와 같이 개최합니다.
▣ 일시 : 2024년 9월 6일 금요일, 오전 10시
▣ 장소 : 신양관 4동 302호 국제회의실
▣ 연사 : Nina Topintzi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
▣ 제목 : Poetic rhyme as a ‘window’ to foot structure*
▣ 초록 : Phonological theory has long accepted the existence of the foot, a constituent that typically includes two syllables (or moras), one of which—the head—is considered strong and bears prominence, whereas the other—the dependent—is weak, e.g. (ˈσσ)Ft. Feet have been fundamental to our understanding of several prosodic phenomena. Standard accounts hold that feet are maximally binary (e.g. Hayes 1995), as in the example (ˈσσ)Ft. There is a body of work, however, that argues that feet can be minimally layered (Martínez-Paricio & Kager 2015), so that next to the binary foot, a weak syllable can be adjoined, producing a larger foot—abbreviated as Ft’—which dominates the former, schematically: ((ˈσσ)Ftσ)Ft’. Internally layered feet (ILT) of this type have proven useful to understand patterns of ternary stress, ternary stress windows, tone, phonotactics, and prosodic morphology (see Kager 2024 and refs. therein). In this talk, we show that ILT feet are also relevant in the poetic device of rhyme, at least in Spanish and Greek. Prototypical rhyme appears at line endings and involves (at least) a pair of lines whose final parts sound identical, from their primarily stressed vowel on, as in Greek [ˈkrina] ‘lilies’ and [elaˈfina] ‘doe’ (Spatalas 1997). Various deviations from this template occur across languages. In this work, we focus on rhymes that involve antepenultimately (APU) stressed words in Spanish and Greek and reveal asymmetries in the behavior of the unstressed syllables within the APU rhymes. In Spanish, we show that the penultimate posttonic syllable can be ignored for rhyming purposes, unlike the final syllable. We claim that this can be understood structurally; within an ILT foot, the penult has a double-foot dependent status that renders it weaker than the final, which has a single-foot dependent status. In Greek, on the other hand, APU words may rhyme with U words, i.e. finally stressed words. This becomes possible because the final syllable in the APU word, can be re-structured as a foot head. This is not an option for the penultimate syllable. Once again, this can be attributed to the fact that while both penult and final syllables in an APU word are weak, they are not qualitatively identical. The final one is ‘stronger’, due to its single-foot-dependent status. The study achieves several goals; empirically, it expands our knowledge on rhyme, as it highlights previously undetected or barely discussed patterns—APU rhyme is after all cross-linguistically rare and understudied. It also underscores how poetic meter constitutes a significant source of linguistic information as it indirectly accesses the phonological knowledge of speakers (cf. Fabb 2010). Finally, on a theoretical level, the difference in behavior among the weak syllables within the APU rhyme domain is nicely captured by the ILT foot, which makes exactly this prediction, given the structural differentiation on the representation of dependents.
* based on joint work with Mirella de Sisto and Violeta Martinez-Paricio
i) 콜로퀴엄 후, Prof. Nina Topintzi와 함께 점심 식사가 있을 예정이오니 참석 여부를 9/3(화)까지 알려주시면 준비하는데 도움이 되겠습니다. (장소 : 교수회관 3회의실, 12시)
ii) 9/6(금) 오후 2시부터 시작하여 Prof. Nina Topintzi와 학생들과의 간담회를 진행하고자 합니다. 면담에 참여를 희망하는 분들은 미리 말씀해 주시기 바랍니다.
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