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Digital Technologies for Exploring Prosody: A Brief Historical Overview

What are the historical and existing efforts for employing digital technologies to explore or generate prosody? From the perspectives of information science and textual analysis, Setsuko Yokoyama works with literary scholars and archivists to facilitate critical dialogues on literary artifacts. One of her research aims is to highlight how digital technologies have informed the epistemologies of prosody. In this essay, she uses Hartman’s Scansion Machine to begin sharing her digital prosody projects and prosody-related visualization methodologies.