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Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Abstract

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and music is the assumption that the comparison of these two domains can shed light on the structural and functional properties of each, while also serving as a test case for theories of how the mind and ... More

Keywords: language and music, cognitive systems, mind, psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, education

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199553426
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553426.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Patrick Rebuschat, editor
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA

Martin Rohmeier, editor
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

John A. Hawkins, editor
Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis, University of California, USA and Psychology Professor, English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge University , UK

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Introduction

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Section 1 Structural comparisons

Chapter 1 Introduction

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Chapter 2 Grouping in the stressing of words, in metrical verse, and in music

Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle

Chapter 3 The Fabb–Halle approach to metrical stress theory as a window on commonalities between music and language

Laura Dilley and J. Devin McAuley

Chapter 4 Metrical structure and the prosodic hierarchy

Brechtje Post

Chapter 5 Metre is music: a reply to Fabb and Halle

Bert Vaux and Neil Myler

Chapter 6 Comments and a conjecture inspired by Fabb and Halle

Ian Roberts

Chapter 7 Response to commentaries

Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle

Section 2 Evolution

Chapter 8 Introduction

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Chapter 9 The biology and evolution of rhythm: unravelling a paradox

W. Tecumseh Fitch

Chapter 10 Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture

Simon Kirby

Chapter 11 The significance of stones and bones: understanding the biology and evolution of rhythm requires attention to the archaeological and fossil record

Steven Mithen

Chapter 12 A grand gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm, and emotion

Iain Morley

Chapter 13 An ethnomusicological perspective on animal ‘music’ and human music: the paradox of ‘the paradox of rhythm’

Elizabeth Tolbert

Chapter 14 Reweaving the strands: welcoming diverse perspectives on the biology of music

W. Tecumseh Fitch

Section 3 Learning and processing

Chapter 15 Introduction

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Chapter 16 Musical communication as alignment of brain states

Jamshed Bharucha, Meagan Curtis, and Kaivon Paroo

Chapter 17 Communicating structure, affect, and movement

Zoltán Dienes, Gustav Kuhn, Xiuyan Guo, and Catherine Jones

Chapter 18 Computer models of (music) cognition

Geraint A. Wiggins

Chapter 19 Alignment in language and music

John N. Williams

Chapter 20 Alignment of brain states: response to commentaries

Jamshed J. Bharucha, Kaivon Paroo, and Meagan Curtis

Section 4 Neuroscience

Chapter 21 Introduction

Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, and Ian Cross

Chapter 22 Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework

Aniruddh D. Patel

Chapter 23 Response to target article ‘Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework’

Stefan Koelsch

Chapter 24 Advances in neuroimaging techniques: implications for the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis

Jessica A. Grahn

Chapter 25 Schemas, not syntax: a reply to Patel

Justin London

Chapter 26 Advancing the comparative study of linguistic and musical syntactic processing

Aniruddh D. Patel

Chapter 27 Music, language, and modularity in action

Isabelle Peretz

Chapter 28 Human subcortical auditory function provides a new conceptual framework for considering modularity

Erika Skoe and Nina Kraus

Chapter 29 What remains of modularity?

Mireille Besson and Daniele Schön

Chapter 30 Language, music, and children's brains: a rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems

Usha Goswami

Chapter 31 Towards the role of working memory in pitch processing in language and music

Leigh VanHandel, Jennie Wakefield, and Wendy K. Wilkins

Chapter 32 Modularity in music relative to speech: framing the debate

Isabelle Peretz

Section 5 Conclusion

Chapter 33 Music as a social and cognitive process

Ian Cross

End Matter

Index