On the representation of hierarchical structure: Revisiting Darwin’s musical protolanguage

<jats:p>In this article, we address the tenability of Darwin’s musical protolanguage, arguing that a more compelling evolutionary scenario is one where a prosodic protolanguage is taken to be the preliminary step to represent the hierarchy involved in linguistic structures within a linear audi...

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Main Authors: Miyagawa, Shigeru, Arévalo, Analía, Nóbrega, Vitor A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146569