A Computationally-Assisted Procedure for Discovering Poetic Organization within Oral Tradition
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A procedure is described which is capable of detecting poetic organization within transcribed oral tradition text. It consists of two components: An automated process which generates recurring n-gram patterns, and a verification process of manual review. Applied to a corpus of Tahitian and Mangarevan oral tradition, it has led to discovery of a variety of uses of meter and parallelism; ranging from the universally common to the unanticipated. The procedure should be generalizable to the study of other of the world’s oral poetries, having been designed to identify a wide range of organizational possibilities.
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