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prosody and dialog in language and music

organizers: elaine chew, alex françois

a radcliffe institute for advanced study exploratory seminar
friday/saturday, november 5-6, 2010

about the seminar

The 2010 Radcliffe exploratory seminar "Prosody and Dialog in Language and Music" aims to study prosody and dialog in language and music from a broadly cross-disciplinary perspective.

Prosody and dialog are the cornerstones of human auditory communication through language and music. Prosody refers to the acoustic properties of the spoken word or performed music that serve the functions of segmentation, prominence, the conveying of emotion, and coordination. Dialog refers to a conversational or improvisatory exchange of words or music between humans and/or machines.

Structure and form in static music scores and in written texts are well-studied problems. The practical aspects of how humans turn these written forms into dynamic sounds that convey and clarify ideas, and use them to carry on an extended exchange, have eluded the same degree of thorough characterization using traditional approaches.

The seminar brings together scientists, humanists, and artists to examine prosody and dialog in language and music from multiple ideological, scholarly, and technical perspectives with the goal of creating new avenues for scholarly exploration.

participants

[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Stephen Blum, City University of New York
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Elaine Chew, University of Southern California
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Peter Child, Massachusetts Institute for Technology
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Alexandre François, Harvey Mudd College
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Christopher Hasty, Harvard University
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Christopher Raphael, Indiana University, Bloomington
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Robert Remez, Columbia University
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
[ PRE-SEMINAR STATEMENT ] Richard Wolf, Harvard University

location

Radcliffe Gymnasium (one of the ground floor conference rooms):
[ MAP (JPEG, PDF) ] 18 Mason Street (enter from 10 Garden Street), Cambridge MA 02138.

schedule

updated October 25, 2010.