Analogy and convergence between the cognitive processing of textual meaning and music: theoretical considerations of a song as a complex semiotic object
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/language-and-linguistics/events/langue |
| Keywords | Song Perception, Musical Semantics, Cognitive Functions, Modules, Specificity |
| Description | The paper investigates whether language and music compete for processing resources during the perception and interpreting of a song. By reviewing the evidence bearing on a selection of experimental studies on the music-language interface it attempts to establish which representations become predominant and steer the interpretation in the song listening. Related issues, such as the question of domain-specificity and overlapping representations are addressed in an attempt to shed light on the processing of semantics of a song. |
| Related projects: |