Showing papers by "David Temperley published in 2007"
TL;DR: Does language production reflect a preference for shorter dependencies as well?
115 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine this phenomenon more systematically than has been done in the past and argue that this does occur frequently in rock music, often with respect to the local harmony, and sometimes with respect the underlying tonic harmony as well.
Abstract: Several authors have observed that rock music sometimes features a kind of independence or ‘divorce’ between melody and harmony. In this article, I examine this phenomenon more systematically than has been done in the past. A good indicator of melodic-harmonic divorce is cases where non-chord-tones in the melody do not resolve by step. I argue that this does occur frequently in rock ‐ often with respect to the local harmony, and sometimes with respect to the underlying tonic harmony as well. This melodic-harmonic ‘divorce’ tends to occur in rather specific circumstances: usually in pentatonically based melodies, and in verses rather than choruses. Such situations could be said to reflect a ‘stratified’ pitch organisation. A particularly common situation is where the verse of a song features stratified organisation, followed by a chorus which shifts to a ‘unified’ organisation in which both melody and accompaniment are regulated by the harmonic structure.
65 citations
Proceedings Article•
01 Jun 2007
TL;DR: A grammar generated by minimizing dependency length in unordered trees from the Penn Treebank is found to agree surprisingly well with English word order, suggesting that dependency length minimization has influenced the evolution of English.
Abstract: We examine the problem of choosing word order for a set of dependency trees so as to minimize total dependency length. We present an algorithm for computing the optimal layout of a single tree as well as a numerical method for optimizing a grammar of orderings over a set of dependency types. A grammar generated by minimizing dependency length in unordered trees from the Penn Treebank is found to agree surprisingly well with English word order, suggesting that dependency length minimization has influenced the evolution of English.
53 citations
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this article, some simple cross-entropy experiments have been conducted to test Schenkerian theory in the context of modeling stylistic differences between classes of classes of objects.
Abstract: This chapter contains section titled: 9.1 Some Simple Cross-Entropy Experiments, 9.2 Modeling Stylistic Differences, 9.3 Testing Schenkerian Theory
2 citations