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Speaker Presentations

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Session I
Distler Hall
5:40 – 6:25pm
Poetry as Musical Structure: A Case Study
Fred Lerdahl
Friday, July 11, 2008
Session II

9:00 – 9:45am
The Hurley Model of Humor: An Introduction
Daniel Dennett
9:45 – 10:15am
Expectancy as a Cognitive Link between Music and Language
Aniruddh Patel
9:15 – 10:45am
Phonological Equivalence of Pitch Level in Speech
D.R. Ladd
Session III

11:15 – 11:45am
Accents in Speech and Music: Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology and the Baroque French Overture
Alfred Cramer
11:45 – 12:15pm
Weighing Conflicting Constraints: A Maxent Approach to Textsetting
Bruce Hayes
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Session IV

9:00 – 9:30am
From Singing to Speaking: Facilitating Recovery from Aphasia
Gottfried Schlaug
9:30 – 10:00am
Bistability in the Perceptual Organization of Speech
Robert Remez
10:00 – 10:30am
Abstract and Concrete Meter
John Halle
Session V

11:00 – 11:30am
Agreement and Island Phenomena in the Syntax of Music and Language
David Pesetsky
11:30 – 12:00pm
Pitch Discrimination Differs in Speech and Music: Evidence from a Case of Congenital Amusia
Barbara Tillmann
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Session VI

9:00 – 9:30am
Simultaneous Dual-fMRI Scanning of Human Duetters
Lawrence Parsons
9:30 – 10:00am
A Cortical Network for Hierarchical Processing of Musical Phrase Structure
Mark Tramo
10:00 – 10:30am
Melodic Pattern Learning: Statistical Learning and Absolute Pitch
Elizabeth West Marvin
Session VII

11:00 – 11:30am
Communication and Synchronization of Brain States via Music and Language
Jamshed J. Bharucha
11:30 – 12:15pm
Parallels and Non-Parallels between Language and Music
Ray Jackendoff



Distler Hall
Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155