The Metrics of Children's Verse: A Cross‐Linguistic Study1
The Metrics of Children's Verse: A Cross‐Linguistic Study1
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儿童诗歌的衡量标准：跨语言研究1
DOI：
10.1525/aa.1966.68.6.02a00040
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发表时间：
1966
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
R. Burling
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作者：
R. Burling
许多语言的童谣由四行诗句组成，每行有四个主要“节拍”。节拍在时间上均匀分布，通常以带有重音的音节或其他一些语音区别来标记，这些音节将它们与周围的音节区分开来，但休止符出现在几个节拍位置上。在这个一般模式中，每种语言都有自己的特殊特征，但童谣的语言之间的相似性似乎比更复杂的诗歌形式更大。似乎很难将跨语言的相似性归因于我们共同的人性之外的任何事物。
Nursery rhymes in many languages consist of verses of four lines, and each line has four major “beats.” The beats are spaced evenly in time and are usually marked by syllables with stress or with some other phonological distinction that sets them off from surrounding syllables, but rests occur in a few beat positions. Each language has its own special characteristics within this general pattern, but the similarities between languages seem greater for nursery rhymes than for more elaborate forms of poetry. It seems difficult to attribute the cross-linguistic similarities to anything except our common humanity.