Abstract
Commentary: The 'Musilanguage' Model of Language Evolution.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
The model of musilanguage (Brown, 2000, 2017) requires a new musicological term to refer to its texture
Unlike speech, musilanguage is based on simultaneous vocalization of multiple participants who reproduce the same signal 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
Summary
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. The Russian Musical Encyclopedia defines heterophony as a multi-part music generated by the collective performance of the same melody, where parts contain deviations from the principal melodic formula (Mueller, 1973).
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