title: An Alternative Postulate to see Melody as “Language” creator: Situngkir, Hokky subject: Statistical Models subject: Language subject: Computational Linguistics subject: Complexity Theory subject: Philosophy of Mind subject: Evolutionary Psychology description: The paper proposes a way to see melodic features in music/songs in the terms of “letters” constituting “words”, while in return investigating the fulfillment of Zipf-Mandelbrot Law in them. Some interesting findings are reported including some possible conjectures for classification of melodic and musical artifacts considering several aspects of culture. The paper ends with some discussions related to further directions, be it enrichment in musicology and the possible plan for musical generative art. date: 2007-05 type: Departmental Technical Report type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/5593/1/Music_as_Language.pdf identifier: Situngkir, Hokky (2007) An Alternative Postulate to see Melody as “Language”. [Departmental Technical Report] relation: http://cogprints.org/5593/