Notes taken during Berit Jansen's workshop "Stability and Variation, COntinuity and Change", Meertens Instituut, 26 June 2014

StabilityAndVariationWorkshop

* Berit's Workshop: Stability and Variation, Continuity and Change
- Sophie Elpers: Generative concepts in vernacular architecture
  - Common primary concepts in architecture independent of context
  - Speak of 'architectural grammar': different unconscious rules
  - Project COMPARE on Ducth farmhouses
- Marten van der Meulen Folgert Karsdorp: Black, Whie and Red: color
  term salience in Thommpson's Motif Index
  - Colors with an implication of hierarchy (i.e. more mentioned in
    folk tales)
  - momfer.ml
- Andrea Scharnhorst: There is nothing stable in complex systems
  - Physics background
  - Variation as change in a distribution (brain researchers do this)
  - Patterns and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_process][stationary processes]]
  - Some 'fake' dynamic processes can be seen as stationary...
- Sjef Barbiers: Unstable syntactic properties in modern Dutch
  dialects
  - Stable rules for all Dutch dialects
    - All verbs occur at the end of the clause
    - If there is no complementizer, the finite verb occurs in the
      position of the complementizer
  - But some rules are geographically unstable
  - Language is hierarchically (and not linearly) organized (by verb
    clusters)
- Ashley Burgoyne: Stability and the 'One More Time' Contour
  - The catchiness of a song over time
  - One time only: you only remember a particular brief moment of the
    song
- Theo Meder: A parallel between music, speech and storytelling
  - Songs and stories are sequences of clusters of notes and words
  - The motif is the common entity (pool of memes)
- Dimitrios Bountouridis: Stability in cover song variants
  - The fish Mona Lisa
  - Identify the stable part between different convers of a song
- Suzanne Aalberse: a structural Swadish list
  - Swadish list: List of more stable words in a language
  - Similar lists are genetically related
- Peter van Kranenburg: Stability and Variation in Turkish-Dutch
  Qur'an reading
  - Dutch folk songs variation
  - Stability in suras sang by a famous Indonesian woman
- Varun DeCastro-Arrazola: Dynamic attention and stability in verse
  - Dynamic attention (e.g. by stronger beeps) has an influence on
    our perception of change in a verse (song)

- Ideas
  - expose momfer.ml as RDF?
  - Use Suzanne's Swadish lists to compute string/semantic
    similarity?