This paper offers a provisional mathematical typology of metrical representations. First, a family of algebras corresponding to different versions of grid and bracketed grid theory is introduced. It is subsequently shown in what way bracketed grid theory differs from metrical theories using trees. Finally, we show that there are no significant differences between the formalism of bracketed grid...

the present article investigates the stress pattern system of central sarawani balochi (csb), spoken in sarawan located in sistan and baluchestan province of the islamic republic of iran, based on metrical theory as developed in hayes (1995). correspondingly, the present research illustrates the position of primary and secondary stress in mono-morphemic words, verbal paradigms, compound words, ...

Meter perception is the process of inferring metrical structure, a hierarchical and regular mental framework of beats, from an auditory signal. Research on meter perception revolves around the question how listeners perform this task. Formal theories provide a complete abstract representation of metrical structure. Thereby, they provide a clear overview of its key properties and can be implemen...

In recent years, we have seen a real deepening of our understanding of the nature of poetic meter and the English metrical system. In part, this has resulted from the application of the formal methods oflinguistics to metrical study-the willingness to formulate metrical rules explicitly and to check out their consequences has naturally led to progress. However, the new results also depend on re...

In this paper we investigate how note onsets in Turkish Makam music compositions are distributed, and in how far this distribution supports or contradicts the metrical structure of the pieces, the usul. We use MIDI data to derive the distributions in the form of onset histograms, and compare them with metrical weights that are applied to describe the usul in theory. We compute correlation and s...