FORMAL APPROACHES TO POETRY & RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GENERATIVE METRICS

University of Toronto, Canada

October 8-10, 1999

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 Woodsworth College 126

2.00-2.30 Registration

2.30-2.45 Welcoming remarks

SESSION 1: MONOSYLLABLE RULE IN ENGLISH AND GERMANIC

2.45-3.15 Michael Redford (Leiden University, Holland). The Monosyllable Rule and metrical inversion.

3.15 -3.45 Curt Rice and Isak Maseide (University of Tromso, Norway). Stress Clash and Metricality.

3.45-4.15 Kristin Hanson (UC Berkeley, USA). Breaking down metrical constraints: Wyatt, Shakespeare, Donne.

4.15-4.30 Break

SESSION 2: MORA COUNTING METERS

4.30-5.00 Colleen M Fitzgerald (SUNY at Buffalo). Mora counting meter in Somali.

5.00-5.30 Debora Cole and Mizuki Miyashita (Univ. of Arizona). Poetic meter in a prominence-insensitive language.

5.30-5.40 Break

5.40-6.40 INVITED SPEAKER

Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University). Quantitative compensation and latent stress.

7.00 Dinner

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9 Claude Bissel Building 205

8.30-9.00 Registration and refreshments.

SESSION 3: GENERATIVE THEORY OF MUSIC

9.00-9.30 Sayaka Abe (SUNY Buffalo). Perception of rhythm in a musical phrase.

9.30-10.00 Daniel Hall (Univ. of Toronto). On the Musical Realization of Metrical Patterns.

10.00-10.15 Break

SESSION 4: GERMANIC

10.15-10.45 Jan G. Kooij (Leiden University, Holland). Phrasing, accents and the iambic pentameter.

10.45-11.15 Kristian Arnason (Univ. of Reykjavik, Iceland). Skaldic word order: metrically driven syntax?

11.15-11.45 Michael Getty

11.45-1.00 Lunch break

SESSION 5: ENGLISH VERSE

1.00-1.30 Michael Hammond (Univ. of Arizona). Stressless beats in the meter of Robert Service.

1.30-2.00 Gilbert Youmans (University of Missouri). Longfellow's Long Line.

2.00-2.30 Nigel Fabb (University of Strathclyde, Scotland). Inference and metrical verse: evidence for line and meter.

2.30-2.45 Break

2.45-3.45 INVITED SPEAKER

Marina Tarlinskaja (University of Washington). The place of Robert Frost in the English tradition of iambic pentameter.

3.45-4.00 Break

SESSION 6: RUSSIAN METRICS AND GENERATIVE APPROACH

4.00-4.30 Comparative metrics and generative approach.

4.30-5.00 Eugene Breydo (The Institute of Russian Language, Moscow). The Interval Model of Russian Metrics.

5.00-5.30 Barry Scherr (Dartmouth College, USA). Structural Dynamics in Onegin Stanza.

5.30-6.00 Nila Friedberg (Univ. of Toronto). Line popularity and the emergence of the unmarked.

8.00 Party at the Tranzac Club

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 Claude Bissel Bldg 205

SESSION 7

9.30-10.00 Coffee and refreshments

10.00-10. 30 Maria Kristiina Lotman (Tartu University, Estonia). The Ancient Iambic trimeter.

10.30-11.00 Vincent DeCaen (University Of Toronto). On the Biblical Pentameter in Jonah 2.

11.00-11.30 Mario Saltarelli (University of Southern California). The Rhythm of Dante's Commedia: Iambic or Trochaic?

11.30-12.00 Henry Biggs (Washington University). The Classic French Decasyllable of DuBellay (16th Century); A Generative Metrics Perspective.


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