?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics&rft.creator=Tsur%2C+Reuven&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=In+this+essay+I+provide+a+comprehensive+cognitive+view+of+rhyme%2C+one+of+the+most+powerful+resources+of+poetic+language.+Readers+and+critics+have+strong+intuitions+on+the+matter+of+rhyme+but+find+it+difficult+systematically+to+address+its+manifestations+and+the+construction+of+its+overall+affect+in+the+poetic+passage.+Hence+critics+all+too+frequently+discuss+rhymes+impressionalistically%2C+in+sporadic%2C+ad+hoc+semantic+analyses%2C+and+rely+on+readers+to+work+out+how+these+account+for+a+poem%C2%92s+perceived+affect(s).+At+other+times%2C+critics+gorund+their+argument+in+intertextuality%2C+recasting+rhyme+as+an+enigma+displaced+from+one+text+to+another.+Here+I+attempt+to+uncover+the+sources+of+possible+affects+of+rhyme%2C+suggesting+critical+tools+for+addressing+it+in+a+meaningful+way+in+the+hope+of+systematically+relating+its+affects+to+its+structure.+Speech+sounds+are+abstract+categories%2C+from+which+rich+precategorical+sensory+information+is+typically+stripped+away.+Nevertheless%2C+some+of+this+information+does+reach+the+cognitive+system%2C+reverberating+briefly+in+short-term+memory+and+facilitating%2C+by+way+of+certain+cognitive+tasks%2C+the+processing+of+certain+verbal+material.+Rhyme+exploits+and+enhances+this+sensory+information.+There+is+some+experimental+evidence+that+memory+traces+of+two+words+that+appear+consecutively%2C+that+is%2C+spread+out+in+time%2C+may+be+fused+and+perceived+as+if+they+were+simultaneously+present.+Basing+some+of+my+findings+on+adaptations+of+gestalt+psychology%2C+I+suggest+that+similar+processes+may+occur+in+the+interaction+between+phonetic+categories+and+the+underlying+acoustic+information%2C+enhancing+them+or+toning+them+down.+Further%2C+I+consider+the+possible+interaction+of+semantic+or+thematic+features+with+acoustic+information+underlying+speech+sounds%2C+as+well+as+some+conditions+that+maximize+our+tendency+to+respond+to+groups+of+individual+stimuli+as+unified+%C2%93percepts%C2%94%2C+which+may+account+for+the+perceived+qualities+regularly+associated+with+certain+rhyme+patterns%2C+and+I+examine+the+relatively+rare+dactylic+rhyme+in+and+attempt+to+account+for+some+contradictions+regularly+ascribed+to+it&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F735%2F1%2FRhymeGestalt_2.html&rft.identifier=++Tsur%2C+Reuven++(1996)+Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F735%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>