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Rhythmicalizer. A digital tool to identify free verse prosody

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In his groundbreaking study on "The Prosodies of Free Verse" from 1971, Donald Wesling distinguished five different prosodic types in the history of free verse prosody:

  1. Whitmanic, referring to Whitman's adaptation of "the biblical verset and syntax" in "end-stopped lines .., .with boundaries so often equivalent to those of larger units of grammar," which Wesling sees as "constitut[ing] the precomposition or matrix of free verse in English" (166-67); 
  2. "line-sentences," as developed by Pound in Cathay on the basis of Ernest Fenollosa's theories of the sentence derived from study of Chinese; 
  3. dismemberment of the line, whereby the line becomes "ground to the figures of its smaller units" (181), and, as a sub-category, spatial dismemberment of the line by indentation, as by Williams in his triadic line verse; 
  4. systematic enjambment, whereby "[t]he lines.., .are figures on the ground of the larger unit, the stanza" (181); 
  5. dismemberment together with enjambment of the line, such that "the middle units on the rank scale engage in a protean series of identity shifts as between figure and ground." (181)

Based on this typology extended by Wesling in later works, we distinguish 18 rhythmic patterns on the basis of the following three pattern types:

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Workshops and conferences

September 2: Our presentation at Interspeech 2018 in Hyperabad, India

August 26: Our presentation at CoLing 2018 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

13 - 16 June: Our special session at Speech prosody 2018 in Poland

19 March 2018: Our presentation at the Industry Side meeting of the RDA Plenary in Berlin

8. March 2018: Our presentation at the ESSV, Conference for Electronic Speech Signal Processing, in Ulm, Germany

7-9 March 2018: Our presentation at the workshop of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in Stuttgart: "The relation between prosodic and referential structure".

27 Feb. 2018: Our presentation at the workshop "Audio Mining for the Humanities and Cultural Sciences" at the DHD2018 in Cologne

Feb. 2, 2018: Our Colloquium at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

12 Dec 2017: Our workshop at Digital Humanities Austria

4-6 Dec. 2017: workshop at the DHA2017 in Innsbruck, Austria

30 Nov - 1 December 2017: Lecture at the WissOrg'17 at the FU Berlin

5-7 October 2017: Lecture at the "Plotting Poetry" Conference in Basel

28-30 September 2017: Lecture at Informatik 2017 in Chemnitz, Germany

June 30, 2017: Lecture at the Alfred-Krupp-Kolleg in Greifswald, Germany

29-30 May 2017: Kick-off meeting of the Volkswagen Foundation's Mixed Methods projects

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