Vindicating Quintilian. Latin Has A Pitch Accent!
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https://doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias20.45180Keywords:
Ancient prosody, Latin accent, Quintilian, Virgil, Indo-European linguisticsAbstract
Latin grammarians borrowed terms from Greek ones to describe their native prosody; so did Latin poets use Greek metres. This is not only because they admired or fetishised the ancient Greeks. The main reason they borrowed the Greek accentual descriptors and metres is because they worked for Latin. The nature of the prosody of Latin and Greek was almost identical: a recessive contonation of changing pitch. It is false to claim that classical Latin had a stress accent, except as a byproduct of pitch contours married to quantities.
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