37.33, Confs: Workshop at LabPhon 20: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection (Canada)

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Date: 26-Dec-2025
From: Vincent Nwosu [vincent.nwosu at ucalgary.ca]
Subject: Workshop at LabPhon 20: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection


Workshop at LabPhon 20: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental
Approaches to the Language–Music Connection

Date: 25-Jun-2026 - 25-Jun-2026
Location: Montreal, Canada
Contact: Vincent Nwosu
Contact Email: vincent.nwosu at ucalgary.ca

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 20-Feb-2026

Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music
Connection
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
1:00–4:30 pm
Location:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 20
Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship
between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within
laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental
study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain research on the
language–music interface remains comparatively limited.
This satellite workshop brings together phonetic, phonological, and
music-cognitive perspectives on pitch, with the goal of developing a
unified experimental framework spanning speech, chant, and song. Under
LabPhon 20’s theme Looking Back and Looking Forward, the workshop
reflects on foundational research in tone and intonation while
charting new directions for cross-domain modeling of pitch.
We invite abstracts on experimental, theoretical, and methodological
approaches to pitch in language and music, situating language–music
research squarely within the empirical and conceptual concerns of
laboratory phonology.
Topics of Interest:
We welcome abstracts addressing, but not limited to:
Pitch scaling, normalization, and perception across speech and song
Tone–melody mapping and adaptation
Timing and rhythm in linguistic versus musical performance
Experimental, articulatory, and neurocognitive evidence for shared
pitch mechanisms
Corpus-based and fieldwork approaches to sung or chanted speech
Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives, particularly from
under-documented tonal systems
Preference will be given to work that integrates linguistic and
musical perspectives and/or employs laboratory methods in tonal
languages.
Format:
Talks: 15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion
Poster session: 40 minutes
Authors should indicate in their submission email whether they prefer
a talk or a poster presentation. Please note that, due to scheduling
constraints, preferences may not be accommodated.
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be submitted in English and in PDF format.
The main text of the abstract must not exceed one page, using 12-point
font and 1-inch margins.
A second page may be used for data, figures, tables, and references.
Non-English language data must include interlinear glosses following
the Leipzig Glossing Rules.
Abstracts should be sent to vnwosu at ucalgary.ca (cc:
dflynn at ucalgary.ca).
Deadline: February 20, 2026, midnight anywhere on earth.
Organisers:
Vincent Nwosu
University of Calgary
vnwosu at ucalgary.ca
Kathryn Franich
Harvard University
kfranich at fas.harvard.edu
Darin Flynn
University of Calgary
Email: dflynn at ucalgary.ca



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