DONALD ROSS
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rossj001@tc.umn.edu
Department of English, University of Minnesota


with Paul Bratley, "Syllabic Spectra," Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Journal, 2:2 (1981), 41-50.

This was an effort to use a "Fast Fourier Transform" algorithm to test the hypothesis that English prose is essentially iambic. Over a modest range of prose samples, graphical output from the data did not show a pronounced peak at the place which would indicate alternating stresses.


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