Quantifying the Quantitative Meter: On Rhythmic Types in the Dactylic Hexameter

Quantifying the Quantitative Meter: On Rhythmic Types in the Dactylic Hexameter

In the present article, we show that the rank-order of the hexameter types used in the poetry productions in four languages (Greek, Latin, German, and Czech) abides by the exponential function. Up to now, more complex probability distributions have been used (cf. Best 2008, 2009), namely the negativ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Glottometrics 2019-01, Vol.46, p.83
Hauptverfasser: Best, Karl-Heinz, Místecký, Michal, Zörnig, Peter, Altmann, Gabriel
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Sprache:eng
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Czech language
German language
Greek language
Latin language
Poetry
Probability
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Zusammenfassung:In the present article, we show that the rank-order of the hexameter types used in the poetry productions in four languages (Greek, Latin, German, and Czech) abides by the exponential function. Up to now, more complex probability distributions have been used (cf. Best 2008, 2009), namely the negative hypergeometric and the Pólya ones, having one parameter more. We also establish the relation between the parameters of a given model.
ISSN:1617-8351