John Halle's technical articles on language and music
On theories of the mental representation of language and music:
Paper delivered at Yale Music Department Friday colloquium.
Revised and expanded 9/22/02.
Remarks on the Cognitive
Reality of Musical Representation:
A Response to Lerdahl's "On Tonal Motion and
Force"
Talk presented at: MIND & MUSIC ROUNDTABLE Columbia
University
March 4-5, 2006
forthcoming, to appear in Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
Articles on metrical form in language and music
and the textsetting problem:
Constituency Matching in
Metrical Texts
Paper delivered at the University of Missouri, Columbia Conference Words and Music
3/15/03. Submitted to conference proceedings volume.
Text, Tune and Metrical Form, chapter 1: Formal Similarity in Strophic Song
Powerpoint version of above delivered at Cambridge University Conference on Music and Language 5/12/2007.
(Previous versions delivered in talks at Stanford 2002 and UCSB 2007)
Text, Tune and Metrical Form, chapter 2: Abstract and Concrete Metrical Form
Powerpoint presentation of above delivered at Tufts University Conference on Music and Language 7/13/2008.
Four Problems In Metrical Form. Powerpoint of talk at Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, UPenn 4/3/09
Text, Tune and Metrical Form, chapter 3: What is a Mismatch?. First two thirds of long chapter.
(a primer written for Morris Halle and Nigel Fabb 5/2007)
Review: Dell and Elmadoui, Poetic Meter and Musical Form in Tashlhiyt Berber Songs
(Commissioned review. To be published in Language. 6/15/10)
with François Dell:
Comparing
Musical Textsetting in French and in English Songs
Published in
Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo, ed.,
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms, Benjamins, 2009.
with Fred Lerdahl:
A Generative Textsetting Model
published in Current Musicology, Fall 1993 55, 3-26.