On the legitimacy of musical poetic texts as source for the study of the prosody of Portuguese ancient times: An example from medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas

This work shows how information about phonological phenomena such as syllable boundaries, diphthongization, vocalic elision and primary and secondary stress positioning can be extracted from the relation between poetic and phonetic syllables, taking as an example the music and the lyrics of one Martim Codax' cantiga de amigo.

poetic rhythm; linguistic rhythm; musical rhythm; phonology