36.2574, FYI: Panel at LAGB Linguistics Association of Northern Ireland and Great Britain: "Rhythms of Expression: Intersections of Music and Language across Genres" (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 36.2574, FYI: Panel at LAGB Linguistics Association of Northern Ireland and Great Britain: "Rhythms of Expression: Intersections of Music and Language across Genres" (United Kingdom)

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Date: 31-Aug-2025
From: Davide Di Prete [d.diprete at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Panel at LAGB Linguistics Association of Northern Ireland and Great Britain: "Rhythms of Expression: Intersections of Music and Language across Genres"


This panel comprises a collection of 6 contributions and 2 general
discussions. Our talks focus on the specific relationship between
music and language. The first 3 papers report new findings in
textsetting. These talks collectively argue that musical settings
actively shape and expose hidden linguistic structures. The analysis
of right-headed constituents in Italian pop songs (Talk 1) challenges
the traditional trochaic model by showing how iambic patterns emerge
under musical prominence. Similarly, the study of sixteenth-century
madrigals (Talk 2) demonstrates how the demands of tautosyllabic
vowels constrain musical choices. Finally, the analysis of headless
triplets in music (Talk 3) shows how catalexis (Jakobs, 1994) aligns
with and confirms the presence of ternary feet. A round table will
follow inviting contributions on textsetting issues.
The second part of this panel turns to pitch and tonal organisation.
The tonal analysis of Zulu (Talk 4) reveals that pitch transitions in
speech domains often follow harmonic intervals familiar in music, an
observation that destabilises claims about the lack of systematic
pitch in language. Talk 5 examines how formal operations from language
games can model pitch-based transformations in jazz and post-tonal
music, suggesting a common structural vocabulary. Finally, Talk 6
offers a developmental perspective of music acquisition and language
processing, showing how early perceptual sensitivity to pitch and
musical intervals evolves through critical periods, and how exposure
to musical culture influences the ability to process and categorise
pitch-based patterns. A round table will follow inviting contributions
on music/language general issues.
Date: 03-Sep-2025
Location: Ipswich, United Kingdom
Contact: Davide Di Prete
Contact Email: d.diprete at ucl.ac.uk
Meeting URL:
https://easychair.org/smart-program/LAGB2025/2025-09-03.html#session:97434
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology
Subject Language(s): English (eng), Italian (ita), Zulu (zul)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Zulu (zul)




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