6.1189, Sum: Rhymes & half-rhymes

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1189. Thu Aug 31 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  54
 
Subject: 6.1189, Sum: Rhymes & half-rhymes
 
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Date:  Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:13:57 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  Summary: Rhymes and Half-rhymes
 
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Date:  Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:13:57 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  Summary: Rhymes and Half-rhymes
 
Belatedly, I would like to acknowledge David Stampe, who in
response to my repeating the claim I had picked up somewhere
that German rhyming of front rounded and front unrounded vowels
started with Goethe, sent me a whole sampler of much earlier
poetry full of such rhymes. Neither of us knows the answer to
when these rhymes really did originate and whether there is
a connection between them and dialects in which front rounded
vowels became unrounded (such as the native dialect of Goethe,
for one, unless that too is a myth).  It would also be nice to
trace the origin of the myth that attributes the origin of these
rhymes to Goethe.
 
Also, I did not receive any clear examples of antirhymes (situations
where particular segments in verse are required to be different) and
their significance for phonological theory, although potentially
Skaldic poetry (disucssed e.g. in a classic paper by Anderson in the
1970's) would be a source of examples, since certain pairs of lines
there are required to have distinct vowels in the last stressed
syllable (?) (but identical consonants).  The only linguistic study
of antirhyme I thus know of is my forthcoming paper on Turkish
rhyme and antirhyme in the Transactions of the Philological Society.
 
Alexis MR
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