Comments on: language evolved from song? /2009/04/language-evolved-from-song/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Posts about Language and Dialects as of April 5, 2009 | Tatuaj.org /2009/04/language-evolved-from-song/#comment-409 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:26:56 +0000 /?p=872#comment-409 […] digital repository . On 21 May (2 June) 1816 G. A. Schäffer apparently achieved the improbable language evolved from song? – ultrasaurus.com 04/04/2009 Darwin states that it is not speech, but humans’ “large power of […]

]]> By: Paul Lundahl /2009/04/language-evolved-from-song/#comment-408 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:56:33 +0000 /?p=872#comment-408 Sarah,
Wonderful post on the evolution of language. I hope to follow the thread of music as the precursor to formed words with meaning. It’s especially interesting to ponder the role of lullabies. It strikes me that Oliver Saks recent book on music, Musicophilia might have some interesting references in this regard. In Saks style it’s well footnoted with some great references that I hope to have the time to read.

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