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Rhythmicalizer. A digital tool to identify free verse prosody

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Unser Vortrag auf der TAL 2018 (Tonal Aspects of Language) in Berlin

Jun 18, 2018 - Jun 20, 2018

Vortrag von Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Hussein Hussein und Timo Baumann:

Tonality in Language: The “Generative Theory of Tonal Music” as a Framework for Prosodic Analysis of Poetry

Tonality is an organized system of tones (e.g., the tones of a major or minor scale) in which one tone (the tonic) becomes the central point for the remaining tones. The tonic is the tone of complete relaxation, the target toward which other tones lead. This relaxation is caused by the cadence: a musical chord sequence moving to a harmonic close or point of rest. This contribution focuses on structural similarities between tonality and cadences in music on the one hand, and rhythmical patterns in poetic languages resp. poetry on the other hand. We investigate two exemplary rhythmical patterns in modern poetry to detect these tonality-like features in poetic language: The Parlando and the Variable Foot. This exemplary analysis is particularly devoted to the “Generative Theory of Tonal Music” (GTTM) by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, resp. to Richard Cureton's theory of “Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse” (RPEV) which is based on the GTTM. The GTTM and the RPEV both offer a very fruitful framework for the manual and digital analysis of these rhythmic patterns and for the specific “tonality” of (post-) modern poems. Different features including pause and parser information are used in this classification process. The best classification result, calculated by the F-Measure, for Parlando and Variable Foot is 69:1%.

Time & Location

Jun 18, 2018 - Jun 20, 2018

Beuth University Berlin
TAL 2018: Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages

Keywords

  • automatic detection of prosodic features
  • prosodic patterns in postwar poems
  • tonality in poetic language

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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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