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Sundberg, Johan; Lindblom, Bjorn – Cognition, 1976
The style of a set of nursery tunes are described in terms of a generative rule system. It is found that there are many parallels between music and sentence structure. These parallels may reflect man's perceptual and cognitive capacities. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language, Music Theory, Musical Composition