Part of
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean LowenstammEdited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
[Language Faculty and Beyond 12] 2014
► pp. 139–160
The term ‘Malħun’ refers to a Moroccan Arabic genre of (sung) poetry, composed in a quantitative meter which opposes light and heavy syllables. We will characterize this meter by defining the prosodic categories it computes, manipulates and structures to build lines and stanzas, and by describing formally how such operations and processes are carried out. A Metrical Patterns Generator is proposed.