- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Introduction -
Chapter 2 Grouping in the stressing of words, in metrical verse, and in music -
Chapter 3 The Fabb–Halle approach to metrical stress theory as a window on commonalities between music and language -
Chapter 4 Metrical structure and the prosodic hierarchy -
Chapter 5 Metre is music: a reply to Fabb and Halle -
Chapter 6 Comments and a conjecture inspired by Fabb and Halle -
Chapter 7 Response to commentaries -
Chapter 8 Introduction -
Chapter 9 The biology and evolution of rhythm: unravelling a paradox -
Chapter 10 Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture -
Chapter 11 The significance of stones and bones: understanding the biology and evolution of rhythm requires attention to the archaeological and fossil record -
Chapter 12 A grand gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm, and emotion -
Chapter 13 An ethnomusicological perspective on animal ‘music’ and human music: the paradox of ‘the paradox of rhythm’ -
Chapter 14 Reweaving the strands: welcoming diverse perspectives on the biology of music -
Chapter 15 Introduction -
Chapter 16 Musical communication as alignment of brain states -
Chapter 17 Communicating structure, affect, and movement -
Chapter 18 Computer models of (music) cognition -
Chapter 19 Alignment in language and music -
Chapter 20 Alignment of brain states: response to commentaries -
Chapter 21 Introduction -
Chapter 22 Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework -
Chapter 23 Response to target article ‘Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework’ -
Chapter 24 Advances in neuroimaging techniques: implications for the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis -
Chapter 25 Schemas, not syntax: a reply to Patel -
Chapter 26 Advancing the comparative study of linguistic and musical syntactic processing -
Chapter 27 Music, language, and modularity in action -
Chapter 28 Human subcortical auditory function provides a new conceptual framework for considering modularity -
Chapter 29 What remains of modularity? -
Chapter 30 Language, music, and children's brains: a rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems -
Chapter 31 Towards the role of working memory in pitch processing in language and music -
Chapter 32 Modularity in music relative to speech: framing the debate -
Chapter 33 Music as a social and cognitive process - Index
Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture
Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture
- Chapter:
- (p.96) Chapter 10 Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture
- Source:
- Language and Music as Cognitive Systems
- Author(s):
Simon Kirby
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter comments on the discussion in Chapter 9. It largely agrees with Fitch's proposals and explores the extent to which the learnability of communicative systems informs the emergence of language- and music-like systems. In effect, language and music is conceived as culturally transmitted complex systems of which the development can be explored and evaluated in terms of the concept of fitness; this operationalization renders the exploration of language (and music) evolution computationally tractable and conditions the chapter's conclusions.
Keywords: communicative systems, learnability, language, music, fitness
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Introduction -
Chapter 2 Grouping in the stressing of words, in metrical verse, and in music -
Chapter 3 The Fabb–Halle approach to metrical stress theory as a window on commonalities between music and language -
Chapter 4 Metrical structure and the prosodic hierarchy -
Chapter 5 Metre is music: a reply to Fabb and Halle -
Chapter 6 Comments and a conjecture inspired by Fabb and Halle -
Chapter 7 Response to commentaries -
Chapter 8 Introduction -
Chapter 9 The biology and evolution of rhythm: unravelling a paradox -
Chapter 10 Darwin's musical protolanguage: an increasingly compelling picture -
Chapter 11 The significance of stones and bones: understanding the biology and evolution of rhythm requires attention to the archaeological and fossil record -
Chapter 12 A grand gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm, and emotion -
Chapter 13 An ethnomusicological perspective on animal ‘music’ and human music: the paradox of ‘the paradox of rhythm’ -
Chapter 14 Reweaving the strands: welcoming diverse perspectives on the biology of music -
Chapter 15 Introduction -
Chapter 16 Musical communication as alignment of brain states -
Chapter 17 Communicating structure, affect, and movement -
Chapter 18 Computer models of (music) cognition -
Chapter 19 Alignment in language and music -
Chapter 20 Alignment of brain states: response to commentaries -
Chapter 21 Introduction -
Chapter 22 Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework -
Chapter 23 Response to target article ‘Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework’ -
Chapter 24 Advances in neuroimaging techniques: implications for the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis -
Chapter 25 Schemas, not syntax: a reply to Patel -
Chapter 26 Advancing the comparative study of linguistic and musical syntactic processing -
Chapter 27 Music, language, and modularity in action -
Chapter 28 Human subcortical auditory function provides a new conceptual framework for considering modularity -
Chapter 29 What remains of modularity? -
Chapter 30 Language, music, and children's brains: a rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems -
Chapter 31 Towards the role of working memory in pitch processing in language and music -
Chapter 32 Modularity in music relative to speech: framing the debate -
Chapter 33 Music as a social and cognitive process - Index
