BIBFRAME Work

Title

How language speaks to music

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Wiese, Richard, 1953- (editor )
• Scharinger, Mathias, 1976- (editor )

Subject

• Music and language (LCSH)
• Versification (FAST)
• Versification (LCSH)
• Music and language (FAST)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations
• music

Classification

• LCC: P311 .H68 2022 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 808.1

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How to conceptualize similarities between language and music -- Pitch units in music and speech prosody -- Melody in speech and music -- A constraint-based approach to structuring language and music: Towards a roadmap for comparing language and music cross-culturally -- Word stress perception by congenital amusics -- Rhythmic structure -- parallels between language and music -- Alignment of prosodic weight and musical length in Finnish vocal music textsetting -- Metrical mapping in text-setting: Empirical analysis and grammatical implementation -- Prominence alignment in English and Turkish songs: Implications for word prosodic typology -- Bridging speech and music -- A neural common ground perspective on prosody.

Authorized Access Point

How language speaks to music

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