Early Metrical Psalters

Metrical Quantization *

Canonical quantization may be approached from several different starting points. The usual approaches involve promotion of c-numbers to q-numbers, or path integral constructs, each of which generally succeeds only in Cartesian coordinates. All quantization schemes that lead to Hilbert space vectors and Weyl operators—even those that eschew Cartesian coordinates—implicitly contain a metric on a ...

Contextual Metrical Invisibility

This paper investigates a stress phenomenon which I refer to as “contextual metrical invisibility” in several languages, the primary examples being from Mohawk and Passamaquoddy. In each of these languages, there is a class of vowels which are, in certain contexts but not in others, invisible to syllable-sensitive processes. The proposal I make is that such vowels, which I refer to as “weak vow...

Locality in metrical typology

Recent work in metrical typology within Optimality Theory has emphasised the rhythmic distribution of stress peaks by reference to clashes and lapses, compared to the more central role of foot constituency characteristic of most previous approaches. One consequence of this emphasis has been the introduction of constraints that require reference to non-adjacent objects in the representation, suc...

Quantifying Metrical Ambiguity

This paper explores how data generated by meter induction models may be recycled to quantify metrical ambiguity, which is calculated by measuring the dispersion of metrical induction strengths across a population of possible meters. A measure of dispersion commonly used in economics to measure income inequality, the Gini coefficient, is introduced for this purpose. The value of this metric as a...

9 Calculating Metrical Structure