30.1223, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Norway

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1223. Fri Mar 15 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1223, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:47:13
From: Jozina Klok [j.v.klok at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration & Emotion

Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration & Emotion 

Date: 11-May-2019 - 11-May-2019 
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact: Pritty Patel-Grosz 
Contact Email: pritty.patel-grosz at iln.uio.no 
Meeting URL: https://glowlinguistics.org/42/workshops/may11/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

(Session of Generative Linguistics in the Old World 42)

Generative Linguistics beyond Language: Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration
and Emotion across Domains

In recent years, linguistic methods that were developed in the generative
framework have been systematically applied to non-linguistic phenomena. We
find generative approaches to the syntax and semantics of music (e.g. Koelsch
2012, Katz 2017, Schlenker 2017), the syntax and semantics of dance (e.g.
Charnavel 2016, Patel-Grosz et al. 2018), the semantics of visual narrative
(Abusch 2013), and the connection between speech and drumming rhythms (Winter
2014). Crucially, recent explorations that expand linguistic methodology
beyond natural language in such a way aim to shed light on the shared
properties of different cognitive domains (language, music, dance, silent
narratives) that are fundamentally human. This yields new insights into human
cognition as a whole, and thus also into the core properties of the human
language faculty.

Such groundbreaking new research clearly raises questions at a multitude of
levels, including:

[i.] What are the rhythmic properties that human language shares with other
modalities (e.g., rhythmic-melodic structure, which can be found both in
music/beats and in the prosody of natural languages)? See Ravignani, Honing
and Kotz (2017) for a recent editorial on the topic. The role of rhythmic
properties also connects directly to issues such as information structure
(i.e. can we find notions such as topic or focus outside of human language?)
and how it is encoded.

[ii.] How are narrators (particularly in fictional discourse) integrated into
the semantics and pragmatics of narratives across the different modalities?
This is a topic that has recently gained momentum in the linguistic literature
on issues such as truth in fiction (e.g., Altshuler & Maier 2018), but it
carries over to an equal extent into modalities such as visual narrative and
music.

[iii.] To what extent can it be maintained that language and music share a
common cognitive grounding in the form of an identical or analogous generative
mechanism of structure building? Such a view has recently been reasserted by
Pesetsky & Katz (2009) (and see Patel 2008), but the exact nature of the
parallels (and also the exact range of differences) remains to be established.

[iv.] How do investigations at the cognition-emotion interface carry over from
one modality to another? This topic has recently taken center stage in
linguistic explorations on expressivity, sentiments and emotivity (see, for
instance, Potts 2007), but it naturally carries over to other modalities, such
as music, as shown in Schlenker (2017). Research that investigates emotional
effects often targets areas where language and music overlap, e.g., by
studying the emotional effects associated with metrical pattern in poetry
(e.g., Obermeier et al. 2013), or a typology of affective/emotional sounds
that spans both language (including, in particular, prosody and intonation)
and music (e.g., Frühholz, Trost, and Kotz 2016).

Co-organizers:

- Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo, RITMO)
- Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Oslo, ILN)

Invited Speakers:

- Caroline Palmer (McGill University)
- Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)

Program:

Workshop 3 Programme

Sat 11 May, 09:30-09:45: 
Registration

Sat 11 May, 09:45-10:00: 
Introduction

Sat 11 May, 10:00-11:00: 
Invited speaker
Caroline Palmer (McGill University)
TBA

Sat 11 May, 11:00-11:30: Coffee break

Sat 11 May, 11:30-12:00:
Christina Domene Moreno and Baris Kabak (University of Wuerzburg)
Stress-melody alignment reflects language-specific cues for accentual
prominence

Sat 11 May, 12:00-12:30:
Emar Maier and Daniel Altshuler (University of Groningen / Hampshire College)
Coping with Imaginative Resistance: A supersemantic investigation 

Sat 11 May, 12:30-13:00:
Sam Cumming, Gabriel Greenberg and Rory Kelly (UCLA)
Point of View and Incremental Interpretation in Film 

Sat 11 May, 13:00-13:30: 
Tour of RITMO

Sat 11 May, 13:30-14:45: Lunch (catered)

Sat 11 May, 14:45-15:15:
Blythe P. Newton-Haynes and Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College / UMass
Amherst)
Analyzing ballet mime at the semantics/pragmatics interface 

Sat 11 May, 15:15-15:45:
John Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
Rock and Roll as a Dialect of Common-Practice Western Tonal Music 

Sat 11 May, 15:45-16:15:
Oriol Quintana Sanfeliu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Merge and Move in tonal harmony 

Sat 11 May, 16:15-16:45: Coffee

Sat 11 May, 16:45-17:15:
Teresa Proto (Leiden University)
Temporal structure in speech and music: The timing of proparoxytones in
Italian folksongs

Sat 11 May, 17:15-18:15: 
Invited talk
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)
TBA

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