There have been many such, mostly quantitative with occasional excursions into qualitative or pitch-basedscansion.
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If thescansiondetermines that the problem will still be unfixed after a certain number of operations (two as argued here), segment deletion is selected.
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Sharing the verses, they talk directly to the audience using a nursery-rhyme format,scansion, and tone which marks the address as directed primarily towards children.
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The same problem forscansionremains on either analysis, however.
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The choice is free between these two scansions, but each has strings attached.
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But overwhelmingly the evidence is that spelling re-ectsscansion, rather than determining it.
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In so doing, she not only excludes gloss signs from consideration, but alsoscansionsigns.
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We were so carried away by stress andscansionthat motive and meaning fell by the wayside.
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Even the internalscansionof a 'number' was thought out in terms of theatrical effect.
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The brackets correspond to the trika-basedscansion.
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Again, metrical systematicity emerges from the hypothesis that phonology determines thescansionand spelling re-ects it, but not from assuming things are the other way around.
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Obviously if some phonological structure can be discounted inscansion, it must be possible to say what and why, orscansionwould mean nothing at all.
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Thus, for example, a speaker may usescansionsimultaneously to emphasize a main point in an extended turn and to delimit the turn as approaching its close.
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In the final analysis, the terms ofscansionare blunt instruments, clumsy ways of describing the infinitely nuanced rhythms of language.
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This is a case in which 2-levelscansionis felt to miss something essential even by some rather strict prosodists.
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