QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO VERSIFICATION
Prague | 24-26 June 2019

Monday 24 June

8.30–9.00 Registration
9.00–9.30 Opening remarks
9.30–10.00 Oleg Anshakov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, RU):
Simple heuristic for automatic recognition of verse meter in syllabic-accentual versification
10.00–10.30 Salvador Ros (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, ES),
Javier de la Rosa (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, ES):
Using deep learning paradigm to improve syllabic versification: A first approach
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–11.30 Evgeny Kazartsev (National Research University HSE, St. Petersburg, RU):
Probability and cognitive models of verse meters
11.30–12.00 Tatyana Skulacheva (Institute of Linguistics / Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU),
Alexander Kostyuk (Moscow State University, RU):
Verse and prose: Linguistics and statistics
12.00–12.30 Igor Pilshchikov (University of California, Los Angeles, US – Tallinn University, EE – Moscow State University, RU):
Rhythmically ambiguous words or rhythmically ambiguous lines? In search of new approaches to an analysis of the rhythmical varieties of syllabic-accentual meters
12.30–13.00 Petr Plecháč (Institute of Czech Literature CAS, Prague, CZ),
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh, US):
Assessing the reliability of stress as a feature of authorship attribution in syllabic and accentual verse
13.00–14.00 Lunch break
14.00–14.30 Olga Barash (independent, RU),
Georgy Vekshin (Moscow Polytechnic University, RU):
Some characteristics of sound patterns in English verse
14.30–15.00 Georgy Vekshin (Moscow Polytechnic University, RU):
Automatic detection of sound repetitions and quantitative measurement of sound cohesion in Russian verse:
the Phonotext 2.1 software
15.00–15.30 Patrik Bye (Nord University, Bodø, NO):
English iambic meters and the tension asymmetry
15.30–16.30 Drink

Tuesday 25 June

9.00–9.30 Sophia Sklaviadis (Tufts University, Boston, US),
James K. Tauber (Eldarion, US):
Homeric formulas and meter
9.30–10.00 Alexander M. Petrov (Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KRC RAS, Petrozavodsk, RU):
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
10.00–10.30 Mari Sarv (Estonian Folklore Archives, Tartu, EE):
How to visualize regional variation of folk meter?
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–11.30 Rim Nurullin (Institute of Linguistics RAS – National Research University HSE, Moscow, RU),
Nadezhda Roudik (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, DE),
Maria Molina (Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow, RU),
Andrei Sideltsev (Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow, RU),
Tatyana Skulacheva (Institute of Linguistics / Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU):
The most ancient verse in the world (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite): quantitative analysis
11.30–12.00 Andrew Cooper (Stockholm University, SE):
A quantitative analysis of the Old English verse line
12.00–12.30 Mirella De Sisto (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, NL):
Micro- and macro-variation in verse. A typology of romance renaissance meter
12.30–13.00 Anne-Sophie Bories (University of Basel, CH):
Analysing free and strict verse: the Queneau database
13.00–14.00 Lunch break
14.00–14.30 Sergei Liapin (Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU):
Rhythmical structure of russian iambic tetrameter and its evolution
14.30–15.00 Vera Polilova (Moscow State University, RU):
Taktovik or mixed meter? Rhythmic features of Russian non-classical verse (1890-1920)
15.00–15.30 Tatiana Yanko (Institute of Linguistics, RAS / Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, RU):
Prosody of poetic reading in comparison with prosody of everyday speech (Joseph Brodsky)
15.30–16.00 Alexander Levashov (Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU):
The metrical database of Joseph Brodsky's poems
16.30– Dinner

Wednesday 26 June

9.00–9.30 Roman Leibov (University of Tartu, EE),
Boris Orekhov (National Research University HSE, Moscow, RU),
Artjoms Šela (University of Tartu, EE):
Trochaic travels and iambic landscapes: using topic modelling to reveal semantic patterns within poetic meters
9.30–10.00 Barry P. Scherr (Dartmouth College, US):
The Russian quintain
10.00–10.30 Adiel Mittmann (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis, BR),
Paulo Henrique Pergher (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis, BR),
Alckmar Luiz dos Santos (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis, BR):
What rhytmic signature says about poetic corpora
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–11.30 Olga Lyashevskaya (National Research University HSE – Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU),
Ekaterina Vlasova (National Research University HSE, Moscow, RU),
Kristina Litvintseva (National Research University HSE, Moscow, RU):
Lexical diversity and colour hues in Russian poetry: a corpus-based study of adjectives
11.30–12.00 Kseniia Tverianovich (St. Petersburg State University, RU):
Rhythm and syntax in Aleksandr Sumarokov's odes
12.00–12.30 Anastasia Kruglova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, RU),
Olga Smirnova (Moscow State University, RU),
Tatyana Skulacheva (Institute of Linguistics / Institute of Russian Language RAS, Moscow, RU):
Syntax and pauses in a verse line: statistical analysis
12.30–13.00 Svetlana Matyash (Orenburg State University, RU):
Rhythmical-syntactic formulas in the position of enjambement in Russian poetry
13.00–14.00 Lunch break