Evaluating the performance of a New Text Rhythm Analysis Tool
Evaluating the performance of a New Text Rhythm Analysis Tool
Author(s): Elena Boychuk, Ksenia Lagutina, Inna Vorontsova, Elena Mishenkina, Olga BelyayevaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Higher Education , Philology
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: text rhythm analysis; diacope; epanalepsis; anaphora; epiphora; symploce; epizeuxis; anadiplosis
Summary/Abstract: The paper assesses and evaluates the performance of the Prose Rhythm Detector (PRD) Text Rhythm Analysis Tool. The research is a case study of 50 English and 50 Russian fictional texts (approximately 88,000 words each) from the 19th to the 21st century. The paper assesses the PRD tool accuracy in detecting stylistic devices containing repetition in their structure such as diacope, epanalepsis, anaphora, epiphora, symploce, epizeuxis, anadiplosis, and polysyndeton. The article ends by discussing common errors, analysing disputable cases and highlighting the use of the tool for author and idiolect identification.
Journal: English Studies at NBU
- Issue Year: 6/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 217-232
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
