Music-language categories
Although we quickly identify sounds as music or speech, how we form such abstract categories is not so clear. Also, continuous streams of sounds are parsed in units of different length yet to be defined. By examining ambiguous material, such as Sprechgesang (Merrill & Larrouy-Maestri, 2017), or performances from a West-African talking drum capable of speech surrogacy (Durojaye, Fink, Roeske, Wald-Fuhrmann, & Larrouy-Maestri, 2021), different kinds of vocalizations (Bruder et al., in preparation), or synthetic material (Larrouy-Maestri & Pfordresher, 2018), we aim to clarify the similarities/differences between music and speech processing, the association between music and speech categories and certain acoustic features, as well as the role of familiarity with the material.
On-going work on this project includes collaborations with Dr. Lauren Fink ( McMaster University, Canada) and Assoc. Professor Pat Savage (Comp Music Lab)
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