Music & Language Studies

Bruce Richman writes:

       I’m almost finished writing a textbook book called Songs for Speaking in which I use song lyrics from American folk songs and show tunes and also use rhythmical poetry to help students learn, analyze, and memorize English rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns. Songs and poetry are so easy to memorize that it makes memorizing the prosodic patterns of English relatively easy. Once students memorize these patterns it’s easy to help them extend their use to conversational speech.
     I’m uploading several chapters from my book and I’d like people to look them over and make comments.  I’d really appreciate your feedback. 

• Introduction to Songs for Speaking
• How to Use Book in the Classroom
• Chapter 1 Breath Groups
• Chapter 2 Rhythm
• Chapter 3 Stress

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Attached are lecture notes, and the PowerPoint slide show from the talk “Music & Language: Parallels & Divergences” which was presented to the Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences (CaPS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on November 30, 2001.

Music & Language: Parallels & Divergences (.pdf)
Music & Language: Parallels & Divergences (PowerPoint)

The conferences page has been updated to include the call for papers for the upcoming conference on “Music and Evolutionary Thought” at Durham University.

The announcement has now been made. Speech Prosody 2008 will be held in Campinas, Brazil May 6-9, 2008. The conference website is expected to be online at the beginning of 2007, with the call for papers announcement expected by April. In the interim, any questions regarding the conference should be directed to sp2008_info@iel.unicamp.br.

The Conferences page has been updated.

A new Books page has been added under Resources.

The Conferences page has been updated to include an announcement for the upcoming Language and Music as Cognitive Systems at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Additional links have been added to the Other Researchers page

The Where to Study and Conferences pages have been updated.

The presentation “An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology” originally given at the Conference of the International Musicological Society in Leuven, Belgium, August 2002, has been added under Conferences/Presentations.

The Society for Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action (APCAM) and their upcoming conference APCAM 2006 have been added to the Conferences and Societies pages.