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The Latin Accent

The Latin Accent THE LATIN ACCENT BY P. J. ENK Notwithstanding the large number of scholars who have made researches into the nature of the Latin accent, we are nowadays as far from a agreement as 50 years ago. And yet every Latinist who takes an interest in the study of Latin metre or of Latin prose- rhythm must ascertain his standpoint with respect to this most important problem. Let us begin with a statement of the different opinions concerning the Latin accent. The French standpoint has been formulated very clearly by Prof. M. Niedermann in his excellent 'Phon6tique histori- que du pp. 12 and 13: "L'accent et le ton peuvent exister simultan6ment a l'int6rieur d'une meme langue. C'6tait le cas du latin pr6litt6raire, ou, ind6pendamment de l'alternance de syllabes aigues et graves que cette langue avait h6ritde de l'indo-europ6en, une intensite tr?s forte s'etait d6veloppde sur la syllabe initiale des mots. Mais, au d6but de la p6riode litt6raire, cette intensite initiale qui s'adaptait mal a une langue, ou la quantite des syllabes etait rigoureusement observ6e, a ete eliminee, et depuis le deuxieme si?cle av. J.-C. jusqu'au quatrieme siecle de notre ere, le latin n'a plus eu qu'un ton, dont la http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Latin Accent

Enk, P.J.
Mnemosyne , Volume 6 (1): 93 – Jan 1, 1953
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© 1953 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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THE LATIN ACCENT BY P. J. ENK Notwithstanding the large number of scholars who have made researches into the nature of the Latin accent, we are nowadays as far from a agreement as 50 years ago. And yet every Latinist who takes an interest in the study of Latin metre or of Latin prose- rhythm must ascertain his standpoint with respect to this most important problem. Let us begin with a statement of the different opinions concerning the Latin accent. The French standpoint has been formulated very clearly by Prof. M. Niedermann in his excellent 'Phon6tique histori- que du pp. 12 and 13: "L'accent et le ton peuvent exister simultan6ment a l'int6rieur d'une meme langue. C'6tait le cas du latin pr6litt6raire, ou, ind6pendamment de l'alternance de syllabes aigues et graves que cette langue avait h6ritde de l'indo-europ6en, une intensite tr?s forte s'etait d6veloppde sur la syllabe initiale des mots. Mais, au d6but de la p6riode litt6raire, cette intensite initiale qui s'adaptait mal a une langue, ou la quantite des syllabes etait rigoureusement observ6e, a ete eliminee, et depuis le deuxieme si?cle av. J.-C. jusqu'au quatrieme siecle de notre ere, le latin n'a plus eu qu'un ton, dont la

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