Musical Text-Setting As Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English.

Ng, Sara. (2017).  Musical text-setting as evidence for syllabficiation of highly moraic structures in English.  

How many syllables are in the word 'fire,' or 'time' or 'all'.  Syllabic distribution discussed as evidence of sesquisyllables in English, and tested against evidence from experiment on musical text-setting.

Honors thesis for undergraduate coursework, completed in conjunction with related project with Dr. Abby Kaplan, Joselyn Rodriguez, and Jenica Jessen.

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