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  2. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

  4. Psychology of music - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music, or music psychology, may be regarded as a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology.It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  5. Music - Wikipedia

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    Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [1] [2] [3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [4]

  6. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Many writers have attempted to produce a list of distinct functions of intonation. Perhaps the longest was that of W.R. Lee, [2] who proposed ten. J.C. Wells [3] and E. Couper-Kuhlen [4] both put forward six functions. Wells's list is given below; the examples are not his: attitudinal function (for expressing emotions and attitudes)

  7. Category:English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English passive voice; Penthouse principle; English phrasal verbs; English plurals; Plural form of words ending in -us; Positive anymore; English possessive; Possessive antecedent; English prefix; English prepositions; Present continuous

  8. Affect (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, affect is an attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance. Affects such as sarcasm, contempt, dismissal, distaste, disgust, disbelief, exasperation, boredom, anger, joy, respect or disrespect, sympathy, pity, gratitude, wonder, admiration, humility, and awe are frequently conveyed through paralinguistic mechanisms such as intonation, facial expression, and gesture ...

  9. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    The University of Queensland hosts EmoNet, [116] an e-mail distribution list representing a network of academics that facilitates scholarly discussion of all matters relating to the study of emotion in organizational settings. The list was established in January 1997 and has over 700 members from across the globe.