The present paper aims to elucidate the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of literature.Following
Fechner’s “aesthetics from below” (1876) and adopting a method introduced by …

Parallelistic features of poetic and rhetorical language use comprise a great variety of
linguistically optional patterns of phonological, prosodic, syntactic, and semantic recurrence. …

Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse
effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these …

Since antiquity, the concept of melody has been related not only to music, but also to language,
specifically poetic language. However, while melodic properties of music were already …

The neural processing of speech and music is still a matter of debate. A long tradition that
assumes shared processing capacities for the two domains contrasts with views that assume …

The sound of language comprises all articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual aspects of speech,
including the phonological and phonetic recoding of orthographic symbols. The sound of …

The biogas technology is a promising approach for the recovery of energy and fertilizer from
municipal organic waste (MOW). However, only scarce information on the development of …

Research on the music-language interface has extensively investigated similarities and
differences of poetic and musical meter, but largely disregarded melody. Using a measure of …

In empirical aesthetics, self-reports on subjective experiences are an important source of
data. In addition to retrospective ratings, continuous ratings of ongoing experiences or …

Beauty is the single most frequently and most broadly used aesthetic virtue term. The present
study aimed at providing higher conceptual resolution to the broader notion of beauty by …