Meter in traditional Kakataibo chants

This paper studies the principal aspects of meter of three traditional Kakataibo chants (a Panoan group of Peruvian Amazonia). Regarding meter, Kakataibo chants exhibit patterns relevant for the cross-linguistic study of line and meter typology. I describe the Kakataibo system of versification as a...

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Autor: Prieto Mendoza, Alejandro Augusto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
Repositorio:UTP-Institucional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.utp.edu.pe:20.500.12867/4560
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12867/4560
https://doi.org/10.12697/smp.2021.8.1.04
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cultural identity
Verbal art
Amazonia
identidad cultural
Arte verbal
Amazonía
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.06
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.00
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Sumario:This paper studies the principal aspects of meter of three traditional Kakataibo chants (a Panoan group of Peruvian Amazonia). Regarding meter, Kakataibo chants exhibit patterns relevant for the cross-linguistic study of line and meter typology. I describe the Kakataibo system of versification as a quantitative meter that counts an exact number of moras and regulates the distribution of these by imposing grouping restrictions; also, it establishes weight differences between light, heavy and superheavy syllables, and vowel lengthening plays an important role for meter purposes. In addition, the average duration of lines tends to last less than three seconds and decreases progressively during performance.