ELM (Expression, Language and Music) 3

The Third Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM3) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning the significance of expression in music, dance, and language, the importance of systematic structure in these domains, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding music cognition and language and their emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny.

For the two previous meetings of ELM, seeELM Website.

Keynote Speakers:
Assal Habibi (University of Sourthern California)
Erin Hannon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA)
Nori Jacoby (Cornell University)
Steve Michen (University of Reading)
Robert Zatorre (McGill University)

Contributing Talks

Micah Mooney (UMich) — "The Ups and Downs of Tone-Tune Bigram Analysis in Thai Song Text-Setting

Jorge Bonet Gomez (Wollongong) — "A Pluralistic Hypothesis of How Expressions Became Communicative Acts"

Piotr Podlipniak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) — "Acoustic Ecology and the Divergence of Music and Language: A Transmission Range Hypothesis"

Ali Bebry (New School) — "I Made You a Mixtape: Relational Communication in Music Sharing and Playlist Curation"

Justyna Skop-Wach (Dundee) — "Effects of Rhythmic Priming on Grammaticality Judgment in English-Speaking Children"

Ji Chul Kim (UConn) — "Why Does Music Make Us Move? An Embodied Dynamical Account of Music Perception and Action"

Carmen Wong (UIC) — "Combinatoriality before Propositionality: Music, Language, and an Eventive Architecture of Representation"

For more details, visit: https://elm.clas.uconn.edu or reach out to Utku Sonsayar [email protected].

On behalf of ELM3 Committee:

Stefanie Acevedo (UConn, Music Theory; IBACS)
Dorit Bar-On (UConn, Philosophy; ECOM)
Harry van der Hulst (UConn, Linguistics)
Edward Large (UConn, Psychology; IBACS)
Erika Skoe (UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences)
Whit Tabor (UConn, Psychology)
Utku Sonsayar (UConn, Philosophy; ECOM)