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标题：Scat syllables and markedness theory
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作者：Patricia A. Shaw
期刊名称：Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：1718-3510
出版年度：2008
卷号：27
期号：0
语种：English
出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：A highly creative domain between the prosodies of human language and the riffs of instrumental jazz is the dynamic vocal jazz idiom of scat. The present analysis proceeds from the observation that, despite the distinctly individualistic approaches to scatting by renowned jazz masters such as Louis Armstrong, Betty Carter, and Chet Baker, the inventory of the semantically empty syllables used in scat is extremely limited in comparison to the rich range of combinatorial possibilities that define well-formed syllables in English. This paper explores the degree to which the form of scat syllables in the performance repertoire of various artists conforms to postulated universal markedness constraints on natural language syllables. Significantly, markedness theory plausibly accounts for a considerable range of the data. Nonetheless, certain systematic deviations occur. It is proposed that the relative markedness of such properties may be genre-dependent, functioning in scat to enhance musical form or modality.
关键词：Prosody;Scat;Syllable;Markedness Theory