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Language and music: sound, structure, and meaning

Author(s) -

Slevc L. Robert

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1939-5086

pISSN - 1939-5078

DOI - 10.1002/wcs.1186

Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , sound (geography) , linguistics , cognitive science , musical , music psychology , psychology , musical form , music and emotion , computer science , cognitive psychology , music history , art , acoustics , literature , philosophy , physics , psychotherapist

Language and music are the most impressive examples of humans' capacity to process complex sound and structure. Though interest in the relationship between these two abilities has a long history, only recently has cognitive and neuroscientific research started to illuminate both what is shared and what is distinct between linguistic and musical processing. This review considers evidence for a link between language and music at three levels of analysis: sound, structure, and meaning. These links not only inform our understanding of language and music, but also add to a more basic understanding of our processing of complex auditory stimuli, structure, meaning, and emotion. WIREs Cogn Sci 2012, 3:483–492. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1186 This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain

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