Starts
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Ends
Monday, August 22, 2022
Submission Deadline
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Location
Storrs, CT, USA

Expression, Language, and Music (ELM) is to be a biennial conference that brings together researchers from linguistics, music theory, anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, philosophy, and more, with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning, e.g. the significance of emotional expression for both music and language, the importance of systematic structure in both music and language, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding the emergence of language (in ontogeny and phylogeny).

Although we would like to see you all in-person at our conference, due to the current conditions, our seating capacity is limited. We plan to broadcast the talks via Zoom. For that, while registering, please choose the 'Broadcasting' option.

Keynote speakers:
Tecumseh Fitch (Cognitive Biology, U of Vienna)
Kathleen Higgins (Philosophy, U of Texas, Austin)
Ray Jackendoff (Linguistics, Tufts U)
Jerrold Levinson (Philosophy, U of Maryland)
Elizabeth Margulis (Music Cognition, Princeton U)
Isabelle Peretz (Psychology, U of Montreal)
Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State U)