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Subject: LANGUAGE AND MUSIC
From:    at <mroyalJULIAN.UWO.CA>
Date:    Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:28:40 -0400

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Dear List,

I underestimated the interest that this topic would generate.  Rather than
replying to all the respondents individually, I'll send out a digest of the
replies I got to the list.   Please find enclosed, as a text-file
attachment, the information I received on experts and expertise in the area
of music and language acquisition.

Best

Matthew





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1.
From: Aniruddh Patel
I happen to work on the relation of language and music processing (from
a cognitive neuroscience standpoint).  Your student might want to take a
look at some of my papers, which are listed on my web page:

http://www.nsi.edu/users/patel

The 1997 book chapter provides an overview of some issues.
One person who is actively involved in developmental aspects of language
& music is Sandra Trehub, who is at the Univ. of Toronto

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2.
From: Peter Lennox

. . . Barry Truax might be a name worth following up on, likewise Murray Shaffer; also the list
WFAE : world forum for acoustic ecology, might be useful, or the soundscape uk list in Britain.
(search on UKISC).

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3.
From: Lonce Wyse

Hi,
Check out the work of Robert Zatorre - I believe he is currently
atCornell. Works in auditory cortex responses to music, tonality, etc...

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4.
From: Jont Allen

I have attached a talk we have been giving, that may
have some relation to your interests.

http://www.research.att.com/~jba

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5.

From: Lola L. Cuddy

"The Origins of  Music" (edited by Wallin, Merker, and Brown ( MIT Press, 2000)) .  There is a
section on Music, language and human evolution.

In neuropsychology, the work by Isabelle Peretz on dissocations between
language and music is relevant.  There is a good review by Dalla Bella and
Peretz in a recent issue of Journal of New Music Research (1999).   We [at Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario] have also been working with patient with amusia;  the paper is accepted by
Cognitive Neuropsychology. . .

On the developmental side, Laurel Trainor at McMaster would be a good
person to contact.
The music newsletter  http://musica.ps.uci.edu/mrn.html
has some reports on music, reading, language skills, etc.  but one has to
be highly selective.


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6.
From: Joel Snyder

Below is a list of presenters at a recent conference of the New York
Academy of Sciences on "THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC". More info and
additional presenters from the conference are at http://www.nyas.org/. The
proceedings for this conference will be published as a peer-edited volume
of very high quality later this year by the NYAS.

          Eckart Altenmuller, M.D., Hannover Academy for
          Music and Drama, Hannover, Germany; Jamshed Bharucha, Ph.D,
          Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Mireille Besson, Ph.D.,
          Center National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, Marseille,
France;
          John C.M. Brust, M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians &
          Surgeons, New York; Andrea Halpern, Ph.D., Bucknell University,
          Lewisburg, Philadelphia; Mari Tevaniemi, Ph.D., University of
Helsinki,
          Helsinki, Finland; Josef P. Rauschecker, Ph.D., D.Sc., Georgetown
          University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Stephen McAdams, Ph.D.,
          IRCAM, Paris France; Tim Griffiths, D.M., Newcastle University
Medical
          School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom; and Lawrence M.Parsons,
          Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio,
Texas.

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7.
From: Niall Griffith, University of Limerick
I am currently researching a book on this subject (language & music).
The biomusicological perspective is definitely an approach but is really only satisfactory in
conjunction with other perspectives.Evolutionary approaches are very popular but they leave
many questions unanswered.




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Dr. Matthew Royal
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dept. of Theory and Composition
Faculty of Music
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada N6A 3K7

Phone: (519) 661-2111 Ext. 85198
Fax: (519) 661-3531
E-mail: mroyal(at)julian.uwo.ca
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