Commentary: The ‘Musilanguage’ Model of Language Evolution

Frontiers in Psychology

Aleksey Nikolsky¹ 

关键词: texture;    heterophony;    polyphony;    homophony;    musilanguage;    asynchrony;    isophony;    meter;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00075

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The model of musilanguage (Brown, 2000, 2017) requires a new musicological term to refer to its texture. Like choral singing, and unlike speech, musilanguage is based on simultaneous vocalization of multiple participants who reproduce the same signal (call) at random time intervals and pitch levels, akin to a wolf “chorus.1” Voiced utterances produce multiple pitches, generating a “jumbled” texture, similar to polyphony and heterophony, but not fully qualifying as such.

【 授权许可】

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