音乐可以通过将句法关系归因于顺序的音乐事件来解释,and,计算上,这种音乐解释代表了语言中句法处理的类似组合任务。虽然这种观点主要在和谐领域得到解决,我们在这里关注西方音调习语的节奏,我们首次提出了一个框架,用于对音乐解释中涉及的处理操作的时刻执行进行建模。我们的方法基于(1)音乐理论动机的语法,根据三种基本类型的依赖性(准备,切分,分裂;罗尔迈尔,2020),和(2)关于结构集成和内存存储操作的复杂性的心理上合理的预测,解析分层依赖关系所必需的,源自依赖性局部性理论(吉布森,2000).通过一个行为实验,我们举例说明了所提出的理论框架的实证实施。一百名听众被要求再现在听三个有节奏的摘录时呈现的视觉闪光的位置,每个都在形式语法下举例说明不同的解释。假设的句法处理操作的执行被发现是观察到的闪烁的报告和目标位置之间的位移的重要预测因子。总的来说,这项研究提出了一种理论方法和第一个经验的概念证明,用于对认知过程进行建模,从而将这种解释作为一种句法分析形式,其算法与语言对应物相似。本小规模实验的结果不应被视为理论的最终检验,但是在控制了几种可能的混杂因素后,它们与理论预测是一致的,并且可能成为进一步大规模和生态测试的基础。
Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events, and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial task to syntactic processing in language. While this perspective has been primarily addressed in the domain of harmony, we focus here on rhythm in the Western tonal idiom, and we propose for the first time a framework for modeling the moment-by-moment execution of processing operations involved in the interpretation of music. Our approach is based on (1) a music-theoretically motivated grammar formalizing the competence of rhythmic interpretation in terms of three basic types of dependency (preparation, syncopation, and split; Rohrmeier, 2020), and (2) psychologically plausible predictions about the complexity of structural integration and memory storage operations, necessary for
parsing hierarchical dependencies, derived from the dependency locality theory (Gibson, 2000). With a behavioral experiment, we exemplify an empirical implementation of the proposed theoretical framework. One hundred listeners were asked to reproduce the location of a visual flash presented while listening to three rhythmic excerpts, each exemplifying a different interpretation under the formal grammar. The hypothesized execution of syntactic-processing operations was found to be a significant predictor of the observed displacement between the reported and the objective location of the flashes. Overall, this study presents a theoretical approach and a first empirical proof-of-concept for modeling the cognitive process resulting in such interpretation as a form of syntactic
parsing with algorithmic similarities to its linguistic counterpart. Results from the present small-scale experiment should not be read as a final test of the theory, but they are consistent with the theoretical predictions after controlling for several possible confounding factors and may form the basis for further large-scale and ecological testing.