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The Definition of Syllable in Aristotle’s Poetics

2015

This paper deals with the theory of syllable in Aristotl's Poetics. As known, the main difficult of this text are the strange examples of syllables 'syllable is gr without a as well as with a, as in gra'. My proposal is to read this definition in strict connetion with the definition of stoichion in the same text, ad in context of the whole Corpus aristotelicum. In the definiton of stoicheion, wich introduce the faumous classification of linguistic sounds in 'vowels' (phoneenta) 'non-vowels' (aphona) and 'semivowels' (hemiphona) is difficult to understnad what 'hemiphona' are, and why Aristotle call them with this name, if we admit that hemiphona are countinous sounds as 's' or 'r'. that are…