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Peer reviewedBullock, Barbara E. – Journal of French Language Studies, 1997
Analysis of the quantitative metrical verse of French Renaissance poet Jean-Antoine de Baif finds that the metrics, often seen as unscannable and using an incomprehensible phonetic orthography, derive largely from a system that is accentual, with the orthography permitting the poet to encode quantitative distinctions that coincide with the meter.…
Descriptors: French, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Rhythm
