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[AUDITORY] Call For Papers: Expression, Language, and Music (ELM3)

Call For Papers: _expression_, Language, and Music (ELM3), 

Conference Dates: October 2-3, 2026
Conference Venue: University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2026
The Third Biennial Conference on _expression_, Language, and Music (ELM3) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning the significance of _expression_ in music, dance, and language, the importance of systematic structure in these domains, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding music cognition and language and their emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny.

Keynote Speakers:
Erin Hannon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA)
Nori Jacoby (Cornell University)
Steven Mithen (University of Reading)
Caroline Palmer (McGill University)
Andrea Ravignani (Sapienza Università di Roma)
ELM3 follows the inaugural conference held in Oct 4-6, 2024, which featured Aniruddh Patel (Tufts, Psychology), Paul Boghossian (NYU, Philosophy), Isabelle Charnavel (Université de Genève, Linguistics), Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt, Psychology), Eduardo Mercado (University at Buffalo, Psychology), Philippe Schlenker (NYU & École Normale Supérieure, Linguistics), Alison Wray (Cardiff, Language and Linguistics) as keynote speakers and was a great success, contributing to insightful discussions and collaborations among scholars from diverse disciplines.
We welcome abstracts on topics including but not limited to: _expression_ of emotions through speech, gesture, dance, and music, evolution of communication, meaning and structure in language and music, music cognition, psychology/neuroscience of speech perception/production, and philosophy of music. Papers should be suitable for presentation to an interdisciplinary audience
Abstract Guidelines:
  • Please submit three separate documents: a Long abstract, a short abstract and a cover page including the author(s) information. 
  • Long abstracts should be in US letter format (8.5" x 11" - not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point font. The long abstract text may be no longer than one page; an additional page for figures, tables, other graphics and/or references may be included.
  • Authors also need to create a seperate short abstract (no longer than 100 words).
  • Submit only PDFs.
  • Your submission should be prepared for a double-blind review, i.e. both abstracts should not mention the author(s) names and affiliations. 
Submission Page: Please submit your abstracts using the following form:  https://forms.gle/7SeeEbFXDVdTgK8z5

Anticipated Notifications: May 30, 2026
For more details, visit: https://elm.clas.uconn.edu or reach out to Utku Sonsayar via utku.sonsayar@xxxxxxxxx or elm3conference@xxxxxxxxx
Erika Skoe, On behalf of ELM3 Committee
 

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Erika Skoe, Ph.D.
Professor    
Dept. of Speech, Language, &  Hearing Sciences
University of Connecticut | 2 Alethia Dr., Unit 1085 | Storrs, CT  06269-1085 
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