[PLing] Vortrag von Winfried Lechner zum Thema "Natural Language Semantics and Music"

[Tristan Miller]

Liebe Kolleg*innen,

ich möchte Sie sehr herzlich zum Vortrag von Winfried Lechner von der 
Nationale und Kapodistrias-Universität Athen einladen. Sein Vortrag mit 
den Titel "Natural Language Semantics and Music" ist Teil der aktuellen 
Vortragsreihe des Österreichischen Forschungsinstituts für Artificial 
Intelligence (OFAI) und wird am Mittwoch, den 8.3.2023 um 18:30 (UTC+1) 
online stattfinden.

"Synthesizing Dialects, Faces, Singing Voices, Songbirds, and Famous 
Dead Actors"
Prof. Dr. Winfried Lechner
Nationale und Kapodistrias-Universität Athen

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Abstract und Biographie finden Sie unten angehängt.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Tristan Miller


Talk abstract: Both human language and music can be modeled as discrete, 
combinatorial systems. Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983) demonstrated that 
applying the methods of formal linguistics to the study of (tonal) music 
provides a strategy for exposing homologies between these two systems. 
But while syntactic properties of music have attracted a considerable 
amount of interest (Rohrmeier 2011; Granroth-Wilding and Steedman 2014; 
see Rohrmeier & Pearce 2018 for an survey), meaning-related aspects have 
by and large remained understudied (an exception is Schlenker 2019, 
2022). In part, this might be due to the widely held belief that unlike 
natural language, music neither has a lexicon of atomic form-meaning 
pairs (Katz and Pesetsky 2011) nor employs compositional mechanisms to 
recursively derive complex meanings. I will explore some consequences of 
these two assumptions by making explicit what they entail for the study 
of music from a linguistic perspective.

Speaker biography: Winfried Lechner is Professor of Theoretical 
Linguistics (and German Linguistics) at the National and Kapodistrian 
University of Athens. His primary academic interests are located in the 
areas of formal semantics, syntax, the syntax-semantic interface and 
allied fields. Undergraduate education at the University of Vienna 
(Magister in linguistics and Japanese); graduate studies at the 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD in linguistics, 1999); 
research and/or teaching positions in Tübingen, Vienna, Stuttgart, 
Nicosia and at MIT. Recent research projects have addressed the logical 
syntax of scope and reconstruction; ellipsis; reflexivization; 
comparatives; the cross-linguistic typology of same/different; additive 
and scalar focus particles; and generally issues related to the 
architecture of grammar.

-- 
Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
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