@InProceedings{hench:2017:LaTeCH-CLfL,
  author    = {Hench, Christopher},
  title     = {Phonological Soundscapes in Medieval Poetry},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {46--56},
  abstract  = {The oral component of medieval poetry was integral to its performance and
	reception. Yet many believe that the medieval voice has been forever lost, and
	any attempts at rediscovering it are doomed to failure due to scribal
	practices, manuscript mouvance, and linguistic normalization in editing
	practices. This paper offers a method to abstract from this noise and better
	understand relative differences in phonological soundscapes by considering
	syllable qualities. The presented syllabification method and soundscape
	analysis offer themselves as cross-disciplinary tools for low-resource
	languages. As a case study, we examine medieval German lyric and argue that the
	heavily debated lyrical ‘I’ follows a unique trajectory through
	soundscapes, shedding light on the performance and practice of these poets.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-2207}
}