**Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections**

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

**Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections** (apologies for tight deadline) 


Apologies for cross-posting. 


Theme session at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 13, 20- 25 July 2015 , Newcastle, UK) 


In the past fifteen years the field of music and cognition has exploded. A number of landmark books (Huron (2006), Patel (2008), Levitin (2006), Zbikowski (2002), Snyder (2000)) have explored ways in which humans perceive, store and recognize music. Several of these authors (Snyder, Patel, and much earlier, Lerdahl & Jackendoff, (1983)) looked at ways in which similar cognitive mechanisms govern both music and language. From within a formalist framework Orwin, Howes & Kempson (2013) have been seeking parallels on various levels as well . 


Two years ago ICLC sponsored a theme session on various aspects of the interactions between music and language, and we propose a similar theme session for Northumbria. Several of the participants from the previous session have agreed to participate, but we are seeking others who would like to participate in this proposed event. 


Papers in the previous session dealt with metaphors for talking about music, parallels in perception of grouping in music and language and the relationship between message and melody in songs. Other topics might include the relationship between linguistic rhythm (stress) and musical (and other) rhythm (preliminary explorations can be found in (Nathan, in preparation; Nathan, 2008) as well as (Chatzikyriakidis, 2013) from a more formal perspective. 


Abstracts should be sent to geoffnathan at wayne.edu by no later than September 15, 2014 . They should include 

- Title 
- Name(s) of author(s) 
- Affiliation(s) 
- Contact email address(es) 
- Abstract: 1 page, A4 or US Letter, 11 point Times New Roman, single-spaced, 
margins 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. 
- Keywords: Please list five keywords that describe the research at 
the top of the abstract. 


If they are accepted for the theme session submission, they will also need to be submitted to the conference as a whole at the following website 


https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ 


The deadline for submission to the conference website is 3 November 2014 . 


REFERENCES 


Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, 2013. “Underspecification Restrictions in Poly-Rhythmic Processing,” in Language and Music as Mechanisms for Interaction., Ruth Kempson and Martin Orwin. London: Academic Publishers. 
Huron, David, 2006. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 
Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray S. Jackendoff, 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, The MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental representation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 
Levitin, Daniel J., 2006. This is Your Brain on Music. New York: Dutton. 
Nathan, Geoffrey S., in preparation. “Phonology,” in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Ewa Dąbrowska and Dagmar Divjak. Berlin--New York: Mouton deGruyter. 
______, 2008. Phonology: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 
Orwin, Martin, Christine Howes, and Ruth Kempson, 2013. Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications. 
Patel, Aniruddh D., 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press. 
Snyder, Bob, 2000. Music and Memory: An Introduction. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 
Zbikowski, Lawrence M., 2002. Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory and Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Geoffrey S. Nathan 
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and Professor, Linguistics Program 
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