6/24/2023 0 Comments In poetic scansion a metrical foot![]() ![]() We determine that trochaic alternation with a one syllable anacrusis and words carrying clear stress assignment are the easiest for the model to scan. The model achieves a weighted average F-score of 0.925 on internal cross-validation and 0.909 on held-out testing data. Additional metrical rules are enforced and marginal probabilities are calculated to yield the most likely legal scansion of a line. The features used are: (1) the syllable's position within the line, (2) the syllable's length in characters, (3) the syllable's characters, (4) elision (last two characters of previous syllable and first two characters of focal syllable), (5) syllable weight, and (6) word boundaries. ![]() We construct a supervised Conditional Random Field (CRF) model to predict the metrical value of syllables, and subsequently investigate medieval German poets' use of semantic and sonorous emphasis through meter. The seventh value is a double mora, i.e., a long stressed syllable. Single or half mora syllables can carry any one of three types of stress, resulting in six combinations. There are a total of eight possible metrical values. The predominating pattern in MHG verse is the alternation between stressed and unstressed syllables, but syllable length also plays a crucial role. Middle High German (MHG) epic poetry presents a unique solution to the linguistic changes underpinning the transition from classical Latin poetry, based on syllable length, into later vernacular rhythmic poetry, based on phonological stress. Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
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