Premium
TURKISH RHYMES AND ANTIRHYMES IN PHONOLOGICAL THEORY 1
Author(s) -
RAMER ALEXIS MANASTER
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-968x.1995.tb00440.x
Subject(s) - vowel harmony , rhyme , linguistics , turkish , imperfect , vowel , phonology , representation (politics) , phonological rule , natural (archaeology) , computer science , poetry , history , philosophy , political science , archaeology , law , politics
This paper is part of an ongoing effort to demonstrate the validity of the universal claim that systems of versification in natural languages do not have access to any proposed levels of phonological representation deeper or more abstract than the classical phonemic level. Here, we are specifically concerned with the nature of phonological representations at which rhyme is defined in Turkish poetry. We show that the rhyming of vowels which are phonemically distinct (but which alternate under conditions of vowel harmony) is not to be explained by allowing the rhyming rules to operate at an (underspecified) underlying level of representation but rather by assuming that these are imperfect rhymes defined at the phonemic level. This is shown by the low frequency of such rhymes and by the behavior of antirhymes (situations where distinctness rather than identity of line‐final sound sequences is required).