Marina Tarlinskaja (sometimes transliterated "Tarlinskaya" or "Tarlinskaia", Russian: Марина Тарлинская) is a Russian-born American linguist specializing in the statistical analysis of verse.
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.
Tarlinskaja successfully applied her methodology to defining the authorship of questionable Elizabethan poems and plays.
In The Times Literary Supplement Sir Brian Vickers called her Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 (2014) "the book of the year".