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Rhythmicalizer. A digital tool to identify free verse prosody

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Charles Hartman free verseMeschonnic critique du rhythmeDonald Wesling ScissorsCureton Rhythmic PhrasingCushman Williams Carlos WilliamsTimothy Steele Missing MeasuresFinch Ghost of MeterAttridge Poetic RhythmBeyers Historie free verseCooper Mysterious MusicSilkin Metrical and free verseRichard Andrews Free verse

The theoretical starting point of our project is an American research discussion that has not yet been received in German studies: the so-called free verse prosody. The most important theoretical orientation of this new theory of poetry was provided in 1980 by Charles O. Hartman in his influential study Free Verse. An Essay on Prosody. Hartmann assumed that the free verse was prosodically, but not metrically - "the prosody of free verse is rhythmic organization by other than numerical modes" (Hartman 1980: 24f.) - and therefore defined the prosody of the free verse via the term rhythm: Prosodie was therefore a "system of rhythmic organization that governs the construction and reading of a poem" (Hartman 1980: 14). On the basis of these theses, a discussion about the design principles of this free verse prosody developed in the US-American research area, reaching right up to the present day.

The enormous wealth of contributions to Charles Olson's Metrical Thicket (Golding 1981), to WC Williams' Development of a New Prosodic Form (Berry 1981), to the Prosodies of Free Verse (Wesling 1985), to the Identity of American Free Verse (Gates 1985) and its orientation to Speech Rhythm (Gates 1987), to Culture and prosody in American free verse (Finch 1993), to Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse (Cooper 1998), Prosody in a Post-Metrical Age (Gerber 2001) or the Free Verse Rhythms in general (Tartakovsky 2015) show that free verse prosody in the USA is a highly recognized scientific theory that goes far beyond the considerations on lyrical rhythm known in German metrics in many respects. The aim of our project is to test and verify the basic patterns of this prosody theory within the framework of a digital corpus analysis. We orientate ourselves on the following basic elements of the free verse prosody, developed by Richard Andrews:

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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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