The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

view it as pure sound-reference (discussed in Feld and Fox 1994).Seeing music in terms of the acoustic mode-vehicle mode duality ...

and Jackendoff themselves make mention of in their closing pages) that provide a biological justification for this potential for ...

as the elements of the phonological level feed into very different systems of meaning.In language,phonological units are interpr ...

275 The “Musilanguage”Model of Music Figure 16.1 The two levels of functioning of music and language:phonological and meaning.Bo ...

similarities could have come about completely fortuitously and arisen purely by parallel evolution.This parallelism model reject ...

that was neither linguistic nor musical but that embodied the shared features of modern-day music and language,such that evoluti ...

structural and expressive properties that are found in music and lan- guage (the shared ancestral features);and second,and quite ...

to convey linguistic and paralinguistic meaning.Thus,the task of the musilanguage model is to describe a system containing both ...

(first musilanguage stage) to a later stage of phrase formation based jointly on combinatorial syntax and expressive-phrasing pr ...

ignore the fact that not merely a handful of exotic languages fall into this category,but that a majority of the world’s languag ...

tones is central to autosegmental theory,but,of importance,this applies as much to intonation languages as it does to tonal lang ...

Another important point that has bearing on the use of tone in speech is the observation of categorical perception of tone.House ...

are assembled in a sequential,stepwise fashion (this is described in more detail below).The insight from autosegmental theory fo ...

meaningful pitch movements,satisfies the criterion for being a joint feature of language and music,and a scaffold on which both ...

syntax system,this second stage is a richer and more flexible communi- cation system than a single-unit system in that it provid ...

that it is wrong to dichotomize its forms in speech and music.Phonolo- gists describing speech phrasing and musicologists descri ...

suggesting that the sentic system might be one feature of musical pro- cessing that has homologues in vertebrate expressive beha ...

melodies that convey pragmatic features of discourse.Similarly,in Western music,“question phrases”(ascending contours) convey a ...

Whether in speech or music,they modulate the same basic set of acoustic parameters,making interdependent contributions to the pr ...

guage stage is prominence.Acoustically,prominence can be effected by a diversity of mechanisms,including pitch,length,and streng ...