linguistics
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I closed my first post on Tiel Aisha Ansari’s criticism of my new rhyme terminology by saying that the mention of structure brought me to her most fundamental objection. She is bothered that my nomenclature risks broadening the definition of “rhyme” to the point where it loses all usefulness. This comment grows out of her
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It’s good to see Tiel Aisha Ansari’s critique of my Reasoning Rhyme posts on her Knocking From Inside blog. This is the first time anybody has taken me to task on any elements of my rhyme terminology and analysis, and it’s envigorating. Ansari says there is a lot she likes about my terminology. However, she’s
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Throughout the Reasoning Rhyme posts, I refer to the features of segments. These are the aspects of each consonant or vowel that make it the sound it is. This post and its companion on vowels attempt to explain the basics of feature theory in fairly non-technical language, but I’m afraid they’ll remain pretty dry! (Remember
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