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Publication details [#51271]

Botha, Rudolph P. 2009. On musilanguage/“Hmmmmm” as an evolutionary precursor to language. Language & Communication 29 (1) : 61–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

articulation | evolution of language | inference | origins of human communication | song

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study argues that Brown’s musilanguage model and Mithen’s “Hmmmmm” theory on the putative shared precursor of language and music, cannot be accepted in their present articulations.