Music, Language, Speech and Brain: Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, 5–8 September 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Knowledge of language and the sounds of speech....Pages 1-19
Structure and association in descriptions of music, with a coda on linguistic analogies....Pages 20-33
Some lines of poetry viewed as music....Pages 34-47
The melodic structures of music and speech: Applications and dimensions of the implication—realization model....Pages 48-56
Magritte, music and methods of language description....Pages 57-67
Invariance in the linguistic expression, with digressions into music....Pages 68-77
Durationally specified intonation in English and Bengali....Pages 78-91
Summary and discussion of descriptions of music and language....Pages 92-97
Speech research: An overview....Pages 98-107
Rhythm, accentuation and final lengthening in French....Pages 108-120
Performance rules in a text-to-speech system....Pages 121-131
Music and the phonological principle: Remarks from the phoneticians’s bench....Pages 132-145
Emotion expression in speech and music....Pages 146-156
Linguistic rhythm and speech segmentation....Pages 157-166
Summary and discussion of speech performance....Pages 167-172
Music performance research: An overview....Pages 173-183
Expression and communication in musical performance....Pages 184-193
Recent work in real-time music understanding by computer....Pages 194-202
Context-dependent intonation variants of melodic intervals....Pages 203-211
Summary and discussion of music performance....Pages 212-219
Analogies in the production of speech and music....Pages 220-231
The human voice as a biological musical instrument....Pages 232-242
Voices and strings: Close cousins or not?....Pages 243-256
Some cognitive and perceptual aspects of speech and music....Pages 257-268
Melodic structure: Theoretical and empirical descriptions....Pages 269-283
Using brief glimpses to decompose mixtures....Pages 284-293
Lexical alignment and activation in spoken word recognition....Pages 294-303
Summary and discussion of cognitive and perceptual aspects....Pages 304-310
Neurophysiology of brain function: An overview....Pages 311-317
EEG studies in the perception of simple and complex rhythms....Pages 318-326
Prosody, musical rhythm, tone pitch and response initiation during amytal hemisphere anaesthesia....Pages 327-343
The ‘composition’ of thought and behaviour....Pages 344-348
Cognitive and brain mechanisms in perceptual learning....Pages 349-358
Expressive performance with electronic instruments....Pages 359-367
Speech and music combined: an overview....Pages 368-379
The relationship of text and tune in Chinese opera....Pages 380-407
Interrelationships between verbal and musical grammars....Pages 408-418
Summary and discussion of speech and music combined....Pages 419-428
Comments on the symposium....Pages 429-433
Summary....Pages 434-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-446
....Pages 447-468