Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?

It is often claimed that music and language share a process of hierarchical structure building, a mental "syntax." Although several lines of research point to commonalities, and possibly a shared syntactic component, differences between "language syntax" and "music syntax&qu...

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Autores: Asano, Rie, Boeckx, Cedric
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palabra clave:Gramàtica comparada
Sintaxi
Música
Llenguatge i llengües
Comparative grammar
Syntax
Music
Language and languages
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spelling Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?Asano, RieBoeckx, CedricGramàtica comparadaSintaxiMúsicaLlenguatge i llengüesComparative grammarSyntaxMusicLanguage and languagesIt is often claimed that music and language share a process of hierarchical structure building, a mental "syntax." Although several lines of research point to commonalities, and possibly a shared syntactic component, differences between "language syntax" and "music syntax" can also be found at several levels: conveyed meaning, and the atoms of combination, for example. To bring music and language closer to one another, some researchers have suggested a comparison between music and phonology ("phonological syntax"), but here too, one quickly arrives at a situation of intriguing similarities and obvious differences. In this paper, we suggest that a fruitful comparison between the two domains could benefit from taking the grammar of action into account. In particular, we suggest that what is called "syntax" can be investigated in terms of goal of action, action planning, motor control, and sensory-motor integration. At this level of comparison, we suggest that some of the differences between language and music could be explained in terms of different goals reflected in the hierarchical structures of action planning: the hierarchical structures of music arise to achieve goals with a strong relation to the affective-gestural system encoding tension-relaxation patterns as well as socio-intentional system, whereas hierarchical structures in language are embedded in a conceptual system that gives rise to compositional meaning. Similarities between music and language are most clear in the way several hierarchical plans for executing action are processed in time and sequentially integrated to achieve various goals.Frontiers Media2015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/139907Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00942Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, vol. 6, num. 942https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00942info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/256413cc-by (c) Asano, Rie et al., 2015http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1399072026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
spellingShingle Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
Asano, Rie
Gramàtica comparada
Sintaxi
Música
Llenguatge i llengües
Comparative grammar
Syntax
Music
Language and languages
title_short Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
title_full Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
title_fullStr Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
title_full_unstemmed Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
title_sort Syntax in language and music: what is the right level of comparison?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Asano, Rie
Boeckx, Cedric
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Boeckx, Cedric
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gramàtica comparada
Sintaxi
Música
Llenguatge i llengües
Comparative grammar
Syntax
Music
Language and languages
topic Gramàtica comparada
Sintaxi
Música
Llenguatge i llengües
Comparative grammar
Syntax
Music
Language and languages
description It is often claimed that music and language share a process of hierarchical structure building, a mental "syntax." Although several lines of research point to commonalities, and possibly a shared syntactic component, differences between "language syntax" and "music syntax" can also be found at several levels: conveyed meaning, and the atoms of combination, for example. To bring music and language closer to one another, some researchers have suggested a comparison between music and phonology ("phonological syntax"), but here too, one quickly arrives at a situation of intriguing similarities and obvious differences. In this paper, we suggest that a fruitful comparison between the two domains could benefit from taking the grammar of action into account. In particular, we suggest that what is called "syntax" can be investigated in terms of goal of action, action planning, motor control, and sensory-motor integration. At this level of comparison, we suggest that some of the differences between language and music could be explained in terms of different goals reflected in the hierarchical structures of action planning: the hierarchical structures of music arise to achieve goals with a strong relation to the affective-gestural system encoding tension-relaxation patterns as well as socio-intentional system, whereas hierarchical structures in language are embedded in a conceptual system that gives rise to compositional meaning. Similarities between music and language are most clear in the way several hierarchical plans for executing action are processed in time and sequentially integrated to achieve various goals.
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