Registration for ELM 3 is now closed. We look forward to seeing you there!
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 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:
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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
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Great Hall, Alumni Center
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Friday, October 2
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Afternoon Session
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Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing, School of Nursing
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Friday, October 2
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Evening Reception
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Saturday, October 3
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All Sessions
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Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing, School of Nursing
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Parking Information
Guest parking is available in the North Parking Garage (103 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269). The current rate is $2.00 per hour, with a maximum daily fee of $30. Payment must be made upon entry for the expected duration of the visit via PayByPhone or kiosk.
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)