Music, Language, Speech and Brain Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, 5–8 September 1990

Speech/language and music are the two main forms of systematic human communication using acoustic signals. This implies that there are interesting and thought-provoking parallels between these areas, which may contribute towards our understanding of the processing and perception of auditory signals....

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Other Authors: Carlson, Rolf (Editor), Nord, Lennart (Editor), Ottoson, David (Editor), Sundberg, Johan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Macmillan Education UK 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
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Table of Contents:
  • Music and the Phonological Principle: Remarks from the Phonetician's Bench; J.B.Pierrehumbert
  • Emotion Expression in Speech and Music; K.R.Scherer
  • Linguistic Rhythm and Speech Segmentation; A.Cutler
  • Summary and Discussion of Speech Performance; G.Bruce
  • Music Performance Research: An Overview; J.Sundberg
  • Expression and Communication in Musical Performance; E.F.Clarke
  • Recent Work in Real-Time Music Understanding by Computer; R.B.Dannenberg
  • Context-dependent Intonation Variants of Melodic Intervals; A.Rakowski
  • Summary and Discussion of Music Performance; A.Gabrielsson
  • PART 3 VOICE AND INSTRUMENTS
  • Analogies in the Production of Speech and Music; J.Liljencrants
  • The Human Voice as a Biological Musical Instrument; I.R.Titze
  • Voices and Strings: Close Cousins or Not?; A.Askenfelt
  • PART 4 COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS
  • Some Cognitive and Perceptual Aspects of Speech and Music; B.H.Repp
  • Melodic Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Descriptions; C.L.Krumhansl
  • Using Brief Glimpses to Decompose Mixtures; A.S.Bregman
  • Lexical Alignment and Activation in Spoken Word Recognition; U.H.Frauenfelder
  • Summary and Discussion of Cognitive and Perceptual Aspects; B.Lindblom
  • PART 5 NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
  • Neurophysiology of Brain Function: An Overview; H.W.Gordon & K.Bellamy
  • EEG Studies in the Perception of Simple and Complex Rhythms; H.Petsche et al
  • Prosody, Musical Rhythm, Tone Pitch and Response Initiation During Amytal Hemisphere Anaesthesia; H.M.Borchgrevink
  • The 'Composition' of Thought and Behaviour; A.Wirsen
  • Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms in Perceptual Learning; J.J.Bharucha
  • Expressive Performance with Electronic Instruments; M.V.Mathews
  • PART 6 SPEECH AND MUSIC COMBINED
  • Speech and Music Combined: An Overview; J-C.Risset
  • Stress Patterns and Rhythm in the Reading of Prose and Poetry with Apologies to Music Performance; G.Fant et al
  • PART 1 DESCRIPTIONS OF MUSIC AND LANGUAGE
  • Knowledge of Language and the Sounds of Speech; M.Halle & K.N.Stevens
  • Structure and Association in Descriptions of Music, with a Coda on Linguistic Analogies; W.Slawson
  • Some Lines of Poetry Viewed as Music; F.Lerdahl & J.Halle
  • The Melodic Structures of Music and Speech: Applications and Dimensions of the Implication-Realization Model; E.Narmour
  • Magritte, Music and Methods of Language Description; B.Sigurd
  • Invariance in the Linguistic Expression, with Digressions into Music; J.Rischel
  • Durationally Specified Intonation in English and Bengali; B.Hayes & A.Lahiri
  • Summary and Discussion of Descriptions of Music and Language; O.Fujimura
  • PART 2 SPEECH AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE
  • Speech Research: An Overview; I.Lehiste
  • Rhythm, Accentuation and Final Lengthening in French; J.Vaissiere
  • Performance Rules in a Text-to-Speech System; R.Carlson & B.Granstrom
  • The Relationship of Text and Tune in Chinese Opera; B.Yung
  • Interrelationships between Verbal and Musical Grammars; M.Baroni
  • Speech and Discussion of Speech and Music Combined; J.Rischel
  • Comments on the Symposium; J.Rischel
  • Summary; J.Sundberg
  • List of Sound Examples
  • Index