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Affective Symmetry Hypothesis
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| Isomorphic Balance | $\mathcal{A} \approx \mathcal{C}$ | Stable, Moderate emotional oscillation, high capacity for self-correction | Certain forms of Chancery Italic |
Finch famously claimed that the shift in Roman script usage during the High Middle Ages, moving from the heavily vertical stress of Carolingian minuscule towards more rounded, later Gothic forms, corresponded precisely with a measured decrease in the avera… -
Double U
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The sound /w/ was originally represented in Latin texts, particularly those handling Germanic or Brittonic loanwords, using the digraph $\text{VV}$ or $\text{U}\text{U}$. The unification of these two forms into a single, standardized letterface occurred during the Carolingian Renaissance, primarily driven by the scribal demands of liturgical texts requiring precise rendering of Old High German phonemes. Prior …
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Germanic Phonetic Requirements
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The study of Germanic Phonetic Requirements (GPR) concerns the set of specific articulatory and acoustic constraints imposed by the emerging Proto-Germanic phonological inventory upon its adoption of the Latin Alphabet during the late Antique and early Medieval periods. While Latin possessed a robust system for representing Romance phonetic phenomena, it …