The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

required to move from a vervet-type REV to the first musilanguage stage would have been the meaningful use of discrete pitch lev ...

in a phrase.Because it makes reference to personal experience,this syntax system can be the basis for determinations of truth an ...

Summary The full musilanguage model can now be presented.It posits that music and language evolved as two specializations from a ...

295 The “Musilanguage”Model of Music Figure 16.5 The full musilanguage model begins with a hominid referential emotive vocalizat ...

features.Divergence occurs due to the reciprocal elaboration of either sound as referential meaning or sound as emotive meaning, ...

the level of the work group (Lomax 1968),and this is described by the universal ethnomusicological principal of functionality or ...

on an earlier draft of the paper but for generously spending many hours with me clarifying misconceptions about autosegmental th ...

is seen as the key step in reducing the necessity of lexical tone in spoken language.I am indebted to Dr.Stephen Matthews for po ...

Marler,P.,Evans,C.S.,and Hauser,M.D.(1992).Animal signals:Motivational,referential, or both? In H.Papousˇek,U.Jurgens,and M.Papo ...

Bruce Richman Abstract Given that the most basic function in any spoken language must be the ability of speakers to repeat utter ...

beats with about three or four strong beats per unit,and all under an intonation contour (melodic contour) where the end of the ...

laic patterns seem to be attached to particular kinds of situations or to have particular meanings,as occur in human speech. Hum ...

movements,and so on,and this is a basic structuring element (see Meyer 1956;Bernstein 1976;Keil and Feld 1994).But this way of l ...

I have more to say about many-voiced kind of talking later,but for now,let me add that it,too,through the huge amounts of repeti ...

in making such sequences into meaningful formulas is to tie newly forged formulas into intensely felt,highly particular,multimod ...

around a circle,vocalizing back and forth in an overlapping,collabora- tive way.Not only was such overlapping,collaborative voca ...

Talking is speech at its most expressive,most interactive,and most rhythmically repetitive.The best models for it are the kinds ...

developed as late offshoots of an originally rich and diverse form of multivoiced,expressive,collaborative,jam session talking.B ...

(Richman 1978,1987),porpoises (Norris 1991),killer whales (Ford 1991), wolves,African hunting dogs,and Australian magpies try in ...

Nonsense vocable formulas have the following characteristics.They are highly memorable as whole units,and are tenaciously retain ...