41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

Universität Bremen, 06. – 08. März 2019

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AG 10: Prosody from a cross-domain perspective: how language speaks to music (and vice versa)

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Mathias Scharinger (Universität Marburg)
mathias.scharinger@staff.uni-marburg.de
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (Universität Potsdam)
nboll@uni-potsdam.de

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Relations between language and music have been discussed for centuries. The antique perspective suggested a close affinity of the two domains, with poets considered singers, and poems equated with songs. Generative linguistic approaches, on the other hand, assume a separate language module.

Recent research contributed substantially to the language-music debate, and we have now some evidence for shared as well as separate processing areas in the human brain. Surprisingly, despite the fact that both domains consider prosody as organizational principle of at least rhythm and intonation, and despite a possible joint origin, shared prosodic accounts of language and music are rare.

Can linguistic theory entirely ignore shared prosodic principles in the two domains? Or can the new insights prove beneficial for advancing linguistic theories on prosody? This workshop intends to bring together interdisciplinary researchers in order to sparkle discussions how mutual exchange between language and music can be fruitful. We invite contributions focusing on general mechanisms and representations underlying the prosody of language and music, addressing questions such as: What are the key units of prosody? What do they share between language and music, what is specific to either domain? What cognitive and neural networks support linguistic and musical prosody? Moreover, we invite contributions that explore evolutionary and developmental aspects of linguistic and musical prosody, addressing questions such as: Did linguistic and musical prosody co-evolve? Is language and musical acquisition supported by transfer/interactions between the two domains? Welcome are, furthermore, contributions studying the immediate link between the two domains in poetry or text-setting, particularly if they address the role of underlying language-specific principles. The workshop also aims at incorporating a wide range of methodologies, reaching from generative accounts of prosody to brain imaging techniques establishing prosodic networks, in order to seek for a best-possible approach to a timely and very interesting cross-domain research topic.