Recent research in cognitive science and psycholinguistics has provided evidence that extreme behaviors such as suicide may be predicted by analyzing an individual’s writing style. This study seeks to extend research of this kind to a new and less traditional written genre: song lyrics. We applied the computational tools Coh-Metrix and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to a corpus of 35 songs e...

Music and speech are two realms predominately species-specific to humans, and many human creative endeavors involve these two modalities. The pairing of music and spoken text can heighten the emotional and cognitive impact of both the complete song being much more compelling than either the lyrics or the accompaniment alone. This work describes a system that is able to automatically generate an...

This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice. Six vocalists produced the corpus of sung phrases. Eight hypotheses derived from common phonological and prosodic principles were tested. Inte...

English Version: Nowadays computers start to replace the hi-fi system in living rooms all over the world. This opens up more and more possibilities for the user to gain additional information for the song currently played. One kind of information is the lyrics; that is what my diploma thesis deals with. The goal is to provide a program that is able to automatically align the lyrics to the audio...

This 3-T fMRI study investigates brain regions similarly and differentially involved with listening and covert production of singing relative to speech. Given the greater use of auditory-motor self-monitoring and imagery with respect to consonance in singing, brain regions involved with these processes are predicted to be differentially active for singing more than for speech. The stimuli consi...

Language is used by humans to communicate and express their ideas as well feelings, which can be done through literary works such a song. A song conveys an idea and/or feeling its lyrics. In song, the lyrics may contain various metaphors that carry contextual meaning in order convey emotion. Thus, people have different interpretation of This applies all kinds songs, longer version Taylor Swift'...

In the song, of course, there is a deep meaning from songwriter. Lyrics as one elements it contains an outpouring personal feelings and series words that are often influenced by values ??of culture, social, or moral. This study seeks to examine describe moral ??contained in song lyrics Rachel Platten. aims types characteristics songs “Fight Song”, “Stand You”, “Broken Glass”, “Soldiers”. The me...

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