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!

ELM Tree

Schedule of Events

Friday, October 2nd

Time Session
8:00–8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee
8:30–8:40 a.m. Opening Remarks
8:40–9:50 a.m. Robert Zatorre (McGill)
Why Do We Love Music? A View from Cognitive Neuroscience
9:55–10:35 a.m. Dorit Bar-On (UConn)
Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning: Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication
10:35–10:45 a.m. Coffee
10:45–11:15 a.m. Piotr Podlipniak (Poznan)
Acoustic Ecology and the Divergence of Music and Language: A Transmission Range Hypothesis
11:20–11:50 p.m. Jorge Bonet Gomez (Wollongong)
A Pluralistic Hypothesis of How Expressions Became Communicative Acts
11:50–12:10 p.m. Transition to Storrs Hall/Nursing Building for Afternoon Session
12:10–1:55 p.m. Lunch
1:55–3:05 p.m. Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA)
Diagram Semantics and Iconic Transparency
3:10–3:40 p.m. Micah Mooney (Michigan)
The Ups and Downs of Tone-Tune Bigram Analysis in Thai Song Text-Setting
3:40–3:50 p.m. Coffee
3:50–5:00 p.m. Erin Hannon (UNLV)
Development, Enculturation, and Musical Meaning
5:05–5:50 p.m. Stefanie Acevedo (UConn)
Understanding Authenticity of Live Performance: A Case Study of Foo Fighters' "Times Like These"
5:50–6:05 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 Across the Lifespan
10:45–11:15 a.m. Ali Bebry (New School)
I Made You a Mixtape: Relational Communication in Music Sharing and Playlist Curation
11:15–11:25 a.m. Coffee
11:25–11:55 a.m. Justyna Skop-Wach (Dundee)
Effects of Rhythmic Priming on Grammaticality Judgment in English-Speaking Children
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m. Ji Chul Kim (UConn)
Why Does Music Make Us Move? An Embodied Dynamical Account of Music, Perception, and Action
12:30–1:40 p.m. Lunch
1:40–2:50 p.m. Nori Jacoby (Cornell)
Mapping Cross-Cultural Internal Representations in Music
2:55–3:25 p.m. Carmen Wong (UIC)
Combinatoriality Before Propositionality: Music, Language, and and Eventive Architecture of Representation
3:25–3:35 p.m. Coffee
3:40–4:50 p.m. Steven Mithen (Reading)
When and What Were the First Words? How They Caused Music and Language to Diverge
4:50–6:00 p.m. Closing Discussion

Location Information

Please note, this event takes place over various locations on the Storrs campus:

Date
Time/Activity
Location
Friday, October 2
Morning Session
Great Hall, Alumni Center
Friday, October 2
Afternoon Session
Nursing Building, Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing
Friday, October 2
Evening Reception
Zachs Family Fine Arts Administration Building, Room 103
Saturday, October 3
All Sessions
Nursing Building, Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing

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)