The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

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Derek Bickerton Abstract The study of the evolution of music may have something to learn from the study of the evolution of lang ...

least one linguist (Lightfoot 1991) called for a reintroduction of the Paris ban. In fact,that ban was not ill motivated when it ...

every nonlinguist should read),and the reluctance of other scholars to explore their territory,however regrettable,is all too ea ...

languages must share,but which are not necessarily found among artifi- cial languages or languagelike artifacts.For those whose ...

ity introduced by possibilities of gossip,lying,tale-bearing,etc.) than the primary causeof it.More specifically,it was suggeste ...

they would not have affected certain aspects of language as we know it at all.All contemporary languages are characterized by an ...

made,do not develop automatically in this way.They can develop only in the context of a hierarchical structure,which is created ...

A few words on the nature of gradualism may be in order,as it has had wholly negative effects on studies of language evolution.S ...

If gradualism is an empirical issue,the same is certainly true of its off- spring,continuism.Continuism holds that evolutionary ...

capacities to have sprung up in such a short (in evolutionary terms) period of time would be remarkable enough.That several unco ...

Chomsky,N.(1988).Language and Problems of Knowledge.Cambridge:MIT Press. Deacon,T.W.(1997).The Symbolic Species.New York:Norton. ...

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Jean Molino Abstract To explain the genesis of music and language in evolutionary terms, an essential question has to be confron ...

Theoretical Problems:Lamarck and/or Darwin Nobody should doubt that it is legitimate and necessary to place the study of animal ...

Cultural evolution possesses characteristics that distinguish it from biological evolution. Let us start off with a standard def ...

another during the process of cultural transmission.It is interesting to note that the example chosen by Dawkins to illustrate t ...

kinds:they never stop changing,and terms that designate them constitute only what Wittgenstein called “family resemblance predic ...

dissociations at the neurological level seems to lead to the hypothesis of specific modules for the temporal and melodic compone ...

are on the right track) will have a rhythmic organization based on the emission of timed initiator powerbursts,each burst having ...