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The Prosody of Greek Speech by Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens is a language available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Prosody of Greek Speech about?

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on crosslinguistic evidence and exp

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780195373356
Category
language
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Language Learning
Updated
2026-03-25

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