Retained in translation: Rhythm and pitch structure of A. Pushkin's 'Eugene Onegin' translated by James Falen

This paper explores the narration of Pushkin’s novel (in translation into English by James E. Falen) by Stephen Fry and Rafael Corkhill. The aim was to analyse the actors’ oral performance in terms of prosodic invariants as compared to the Russian original recited by two professional actors. An attempt was made to measure the ‘authenticity’ of the translation by application of cluster analysis. The audio files were analysed with the help of Praat program, and the measurements were processed within Statistica package. They included crosscorrelation of durational and F0 patterns of verses within and between speakers with cluster analysis to follow which was based on the correlation coefficients. The results obtained suggest a significant correlation between the declamation of English stanzas by the British actors and corresponding Russian verses spoken by native speakers.