Career
She uses the Russian linguistic-statistical method which, at the most basic level, counts the occurrences of word-stresses in ictic (strong) and non-ictic (weak) positions in lines of verse. From these, "stress profiles" can be built, by which bodies of verse of different periods, authors, genres, and even languages can be compared statistically. In her 2014 book she used twelve parameters of verse analyses including syntactic structure of lines and the use of verse rhythm to emphasize meaning.
Tarlinskaja successfully applied her methodology to defining the authorship of questionable Elizabethan poems and plays.
In "London Times Literary Supplement" Sir Brian Vickers called her "Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642" (2014) "the book of the year". Tarlinskaja was born in Moscow and studied at the Foreign Language Institute, Moscow, receiving degrees of kandidat in 1967 and doktor filologicheskikh nauk in 1976, and teaching there from 1969 to 1981.
She currently is Professor Emerita in the University of Washington"s Linguistics Department. Tarlinskaja is the author of five books and over 200 scholarly articles
