Registration for ELM3 is NOW OPEN!
Please register for ELM 3 on UConn Marketplace and see below for event information. We look forward to seeing you in October!
Schedule of Events
Friday, October 2nd
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:15–9:00 a.m. | Registration & Coffee |
| 9:00–9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15–10:25 a.m. | Robert Zatorre (McGill) Why Do We Love Music? A View from Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 10:25–11:10 a.m. | Dorit Bar-On (UConn) Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning |
| 11:10–11:25 a.m. | Coffee |
| 11:25–11:55 a.m. | Piotr Podlipniak (Poznan) Acoustic Ecology and the Divergence of Music and Language |
| 11:55 a.m.–12:25 p.m. | Jorge Bonet Gomez (Wollongong) A Pluralistic Hypothesis of How Expressions Became Communicative Acts |
| 12:25–12:40 p.m. | Transition to Nursing Building |
| 12:40–1:55 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:55–3:05 p.m. | Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) TBA |
| 3:05–3:35 p.m. | Micah Mooney (Michigan) The Ups and Downs of Tone-Tune Bigram Analysis in Thai Song Text-Setting |
| 3:35–3:50 p.m. | Coffee |
| 3:50–5:00 p.m. | Erin Hannon (UNLV) Development, Enculturation, and Musical Meaning |
| 5:00–5:45 p.m. | Stefanie Acevedo (UConn) Understanding Authenticity of Live Performance |
| 5:45–6:05 p.m. | Day 1 Wrap-up |
| 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Music Evening and Reception |
Saturday, October 3rd
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00–9:30 a.m. | Coffee |
| 9:30–10:40 a.m. | Assal Habibi (USC) The Brain's Crescendo: How Music Engagement Enriches Neurocognitive Development |
| 10:40–11:10 a.m. | Ali Bebry (New School) I Made You a Mixtape: Relational Communication in Music Sharing |
| 11:10–11:25 a.m. | Coffee |
| 11:25–11:55 a.m. | Justyna Skop-Wach (Dundee) Effects of Rhythmic Priming on Grammaticality Judgment |
| 11:55 a.m.–12:25 p.m. | Ji Chul Kim (UConn) Why Does Music Make Us Move? An Embodied Dynamical Account |
| 12:25–1:40 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:40–2:50 p.m. | Nori Jacoby (Cornell) Mapping Cross-Cultural Internal Representations in Music |
| 2:50–3:20 p.m. | Carmen Wong (UIC) Combinatoriality Before Propositionality: Music, Language, and Representation |
| 3:20–3:35 p.m. | Coffee |
| 3:35–4:45 p.m. | Steven Mithen (Reading) When and What Were the First Words? How They Caused Music and Language to Diverge |
| 4:45–5:45 p.m. | Closing Discussion |
Location Information
Please note, this event takes place over various locations on the Storrs campus:
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Date
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Time/Activity
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Location
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|---|---|---|
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Friday, October 2
|
Morning Session
|
Great Hall, Alumni Center
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Friday, October 2
|
Afternoon Session
|
Nursing Building, Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing
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Friday, October 2
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Evening Reception
|
Zachs Family Fine Arts Administration Building, Room 103
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Saturday, October 3
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All Sessions
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Nursing Building, Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing
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About ELM
Expression, Language, and Music (ELM)* is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from linguistics, music theory, anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, philosophy, and more, with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning, e.g. the significance of emotional expression for both music and language, the importance of systematic structure in both music and language, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding the emergence of language (in ontogeny and phylogeny). Future conferences may focus more narrowly on a subset of these topics.
Core Organizing Committee
Dorit Bar-On (UConn, Philosophy; ECOM)
Edward Large (UConn, Psychology; IBACS)
Erika Skoe (UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences)
Whit Tabor (UConn, Psychology)
Harry van der Hulst (UConn, Linguistics)
Stefanie Acevedo (UConn, Music Theory; IBACS)
Utku Sonsayar (UConn, Philosophy; ECOM)