Andy Arleo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Andy Arleo is involved.

Title

Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond

Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.

Article

Arleo, Andy 2009 Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children’s counting-out rhymes Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo (eds.), pp. 307–324 | Article

Known as ablaut reduplication, apophony, consonance, consonantal rhyme or vowel gradation, sound sequences such as Pif paf poof appear to be widespread in children’s rhymes around the world. As part of an ongoing investigation of universals in children’s folklore, this paper analyzes ablaut… read more