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Computer-assisted study of early German: The Mannheim symposium of 1973

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  1. The first conference in this problem area was held in 1967. See Bruce A. Beatie, “Computer Study of Medieval German Poetry: a Conference Report,”Computers and the Humanities 2(1967), 65–70. The next such conference was held in Mannheim in 1971. See Roy A. Boggs, “Computer-aided Studies of Middle High German Texts; A Report on the Mannheim Symposium,”Computers and the Humanities 6(1972), 157–159.

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  2. To be published this year by Athenäum of Frankfurt in the new series ofIndices zur deutschen Literatur.

  3. Soon to be published in theIndices zur deutschen Literatur, this volume was described as a “lemmatized and classifying index.”

  4. Matthias Lexer,Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1872–1878.

  5. Sincedirect discourse is considered to be characteristic of oral formulaic literature (see Albert Lord,The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), Plate's discovery for this poet would suggest further study about variations among prose and verse works from a variety of traditions.

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  6. The idea for this automated study was suggested by the discovery of such symmetry in Hartmann'sIwein, lines 1820–1862. See Leon Gilbert, “Symmetrical Composition in Hartmann's ‘froun Lûneten rât,’”Modern Language Notes 83(1968), 430–434.

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  7. See Agnes M. Bruno, “Compositional Heterogeneity in theNibelungenlied: Toward a Quantitative Methodology for Stylistic Analysis,” Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1971. Also Franz Bäuml and Agnes Bruno, “Weiteres zur mündlichen Überlieferung des Nibelungenliedes,”DVLG 46(1972), 479–493.

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  1. Department of German, University of Southern California, USA

    Rudolf Hirschmann

  2. Institut für Kommuneikationsforschung, University of Bonn, Germany

    Winfried Lenders (staff)

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Hirschmann, R., Lenders, W. Computer-assisted study of early German: The Mannheim symposium of 1973. Comput Hum 8, 179–181 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02402138

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