How Language Speaks to Music : : Prosody from a Cross-domain Perspective / / ed. by Mathias Scharinger, Richard Wiese.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Arjava, Heini,; Gilbers, Dicky,; Girardi, Elena,; Hamann, Silke,; Kabak, Barış,; Kentner, Gerrit,; Kotz, Sonja A.,; Larrouy-Maestri, Pauline,; Moreno, Christina Domene,; Pfeifer, Jasmin,; Pfordresher, Peter Q.,; Plag, Ingo,; Poeppel, David,; Rebernik, Teja,; Scharinger, Mathias,; Wiese, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Scharinger, Mathias,; Wiese, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 583
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 269 p.)

Prosody as a system of suprasegmental linguistic information such as rhythm and intonation is a prime candidate for looking at the relation between language and music in a principled way. This claim is based on several aspects: First, prosody is concerned with acoustic correlates of language and mus...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: How to conceptualize similarities between language and music
• Pitch units in music and speech prosody
• Melody in speech and music
• A constraint-based approach to structuring language and music: Towards a roadmap for comparing language and music cross-culturally
• Word stress perception by congenital amusics
• Rhythmic structure – parallels between language and music
• Alignment of prosodic weight and musical length in Finnish vocal music textsetting
• Metrical mapping in text-setting: Empirical analysis and grammatical implementation
• Prominence alignment in English and Turkish songs: Implications for word prosodic typology
• Bridging speech and music – A neural common ground perspective on prosody
• Index