The Isaac Nathan settings are at the very least charming and sometimes (as in 'We Sat Down and Wept) suggestive of dramatic expression, thanks for those Jaime.
I haven't had time to watch all of Kristin Hanson lecture yet and won't for several days but note insofar I have seen that she does still refer to the language having a basic 'binary-ternary' rhythmic basis (iambic-anapaestic drift, in my terms) while the discussion of the rising triple (our classical friend anapaest) seems to be concerned with the notion of a secondary beat along the the primary stress, which sounds like incipient Trager-Smith territory to me. But I have seen only about a quarter of the lecture yet.
And lots of other linguistic-prosodic goodies on the same channel it seems, thanks again Jaime.

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dave

On 18 October 2014 09:55, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Jaime, thank you, I've watched the lecture now - very entertaining.  I struggled with her mention of "Cayuvava" which I didn't know anything about (extinct Bolivian language with unusual system of stress on every third syllable, much discussed in phonological literature).

I like the idea of the third beat in the waltz being required for balance.



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