Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

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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, ultimately, the brain work. This book presents an interdisciplinary study of language and music, bringing together a team of leading specialists across these fields. The volume is structured around four core areas in which the study of music and language has been particularly fruitful: structural comparisons, evolution, learning and processing, and neuroscience. As such it provides a snapshot of the different research strands that have focused on language and music, identifying current trends and methodologies that have been (or could be) applied to the study of both domains, and outlining future research directions. Cover Contents Contributors Introduction Section 1 Structural comparisons 1 Introduction 2 Grouping in the stressing of words, in metrical verse, and in music 3 The Fabb–Halle approach to metrical stress theory as a window on commonalities between music and language 4 Metrical structure and the prosodic hierarchy 5 Metre is music: a reply to Fabb and Halle 6 Comments and a conjecture inspired by Fabb and Halle 7 Response to commentaries Section 2 Evolution 8 Introduction 9 The biology and evolution of rhythm: unravelling a paradox 10 Darwin’s musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture 11 The significance of stones and bones: understanding the biology and evolution of rhythm requires attention to the archaeological and fossil record 12 A grand gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm, and emotion 13 An ethnomusicological perspective on animal ‘music’ and human music: the paradox of ‘the paradox of rhythm’ 14 Reweaving the strands: welcoming diverse perspectives on the biology of music Section 3 Learning and processing 15 Introduction 16 Musical communication as alignment of brain states 17 Communicating structure, affect, and movement 18 Computer models of (music) cognition 19 Alignment in language and music 20 Alignment of brain states: response to commentaries Section 4 Neuroscience 21 Introduction 22 Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework 23 Response to target article ‘Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework’ 24 Advances in neuroimaging techniques: implications for the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis 25 Schemas, not syntax: a reply to Patel 26 Advancing the comparative study of linguistic and musical syntactic processing 27 Music, language, and modularity in action 28 Human subcortical auditory function provides a new conceptual framework for considering modularity 29 What remains of modularity? 30 Language, music, and children’s brains: a rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems 31 Towards the role of working memory in pitch processing in language and music 32 Modularity in music relative to speech: framing the debate Section 5 Conclusion 33 Music as a social and cognitive process Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z