Plecháč P., Scherr B.P. et al (Eds.) Quantitative Approaches to Versification

Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019. — 278 p. — ISBN 978-80-88069-83-6, 978-80-88069-84-3.This volume presents a wide range of quantitative approaches to versification. It comprises various methodological perspectives ranging from simple descriptive statistics to advanced machine learning methods (such as support vector machines, random forests or neural networks) as well as material covering a large span of time and lan - guages: from very ancient versifications (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittie; Ancient Greek), through medieval (Old English, Old Icelandic, Old Saxon) and Renaissance verse to modern experiments (free verse, concrete poetry); from English and Russian through Spanish and German to Portuguese and Catalan. Not only written, but also spoken poetry has been analyzed.
The book covers multiple topics. What they all share in common is that versifi cation is being studied in the context of other linguistic phenomena that may affect or determine it. Analyses of large corpora go hand in hand with comparative approaches. It is shown that quantitative approaches can be used for the purpose of authorship attribution, to build reasonable typologies as well as to understand why certain forms play such a dominant roles in our cultural tradition(s).Simple Heuristics for Automatic Recognition of Verse Meter in Syllabic-Accentual Versifi cation
Oleg Anshakov
Some Characteristics of Sound Patterns in English Verse
Olga Barash – Georgy Vekshin
Macroanalysis of the Strophic Syntax and the History of the Italian Ottava Rima
Anastasia Belousova – Juan Sebastián Páramo Rueda
English Iambic Meters and the Tension Asymmetry
Patrik Bye
A Quantitative Analysis of the Old English Verse Line
Andrew Cooper
Micro- and Macro-variation in Verse. A Typology of Romance Renaissance Meter
Mirella De Sisto
Identifi cation of Concrete Poetry within a Modern-Poetry Corpus
Hussein Hussein – Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek – Timo Baumann
Probability and Cognitive Models of Verse Meter
Evgeny Kazartsev
Syntax and Pauses in a Verse Line: Statistical Analysis
Anastasia Kruglova – Olga Smirnova – Tatyana Skulacheva
Rhythmical Structure of Russian Iambic Tetrameter and Its Evolution
Sergei Liapin
Lexical Diversity and Colour Hues in Russian Poetry: A Corpus-Based Study of Adjectives
Olga Lyashevskaya – Ekaterina Vlasova – Kristina Litvintseva
Rhythmical-Syntactic Formulas among Enjambements in Russian Narrative Poems
Svetlana Matyash
What Rhythmic Signature Says About Poetic Corpora
Adiel Mittmann – Paulo Henrique Pergher – Alckmar Luiz dos Santos
The Most Ancient Verse in the World (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite): Quantitative Analysis
Rim Nurullin – Nadezhda Roudik – Maria Molina – Andrei Sideltsev – Tatyana Skulacheva
Metrical Types of Bylinas (Russian Epic Folk Songs) in the Collection of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History at the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander M. Petrov
Rhythmically Ambiguous Words or Rhythmically Ambiguous Lines? In Search of New Approaches to an Analysis of the Rhythmical Varieties of Syllabic-Accentual Meters
Igor Pilshchikov
Assessing the Reliability of Stress as a Feature of Authorship Attribution in Syllabic and Accentual Syllabic Verse
Petr Plecháč – David J. Birnbaum
Taktovik or Mixed Meter? Rhythmic Features of Russian Non-classical Verse (1890–1920)
Vera Polilova
The Russian Quintain
Barry P. Scherr
Homeric Formulas and Meter
Sophia Sklaviadis – James K. Tauber
Verse and Prose: Linguistics and Statistics
Tatyana Skulacheva – Alexander Kostyuk
Rhythm and Syntax in Aleksandr Sumarokov’s Odes
Kseniia Tverianovich
The Prosody of Poetic Reading in Comparison with the Prosody of Everyday Speech
Tatiana Yanko