LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: File Sharing, Aphasia
5 Feb 2018
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Both language and music are universal capacities, found in every known culture. Both are generative systems that make in nite use of nite means: They combine atomic primitives (phonemes, notes) into hierarchal complexes (words, sentences, melodies) No nonhumans have language or music in the human sense. Language and music both involve sound production (note: sign language) Strikingly di erent local variants (di erent cultured can have very di erent kind of music expression) Language and music can be combined into song. Language conveys propositional thought (meaning of a sentence) Pitch is foundational in music (crucial unlike in language) Instead, the articulatory phonological space of consonants and vowels in foundational in speech. However, language makes use of intonation, and there are tone languages. Di erence: discrete pitches in music, continuous rise and fall in language. Lerdahl and jackendo : music and language are structured rhythmically by very similar metrical systems.
