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dc.contributor.authorMiyagawa, Shigeru
dc.contributor.authorArévalo, Analía
dc.contributor.authorNóbrega, Vitor A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-21T17:10:15Z
dc.date.available2022-11-21T17:10:15Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-11
dc.identifier.issn1662-5161
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146569
dc.description.abstract<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 auditory signal. We hypothesize that the establishment of a prosodic protolanguage results from an enhancement of a rhythmic system that transformed linear signals into speech prosody, which in turn can mark syntactic hierarchical relations. To develop this claim, we explore the role of prosodic cues on the parsing of syntactic structures, as well as neuroscientific evidence connecting the evolutionary development of music and linguistic capacities. Finally, we entertain the assumption that the capacity to generate hierarchical structure might have developed as part of tool-making in human prehistory, and hence was established prior to the enhancement of a prosodic protolinguistic system.</jats:p>en_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SAen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.3389/fnhum.2022.1018708en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceFrontiersen_US
dc.subjectBehavioral Neuroscienceen_US
dc.subjectBiological Psychiatryen_US
dc.subjectPsychiatry and Mental healthen_US
dc.subjectNeurologyen_US
dc.subjectNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychologyen_US
dc.titleOn the representation of hierarchical structure: Revisiting Darwin’s musical protolanguageen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationMiyagawa, Shigeru, Arévalo, Analía and Nóbrega, Vitor A. 2022. "On the representation of hierarchical structure: Revisiting Darwin’s musical protolanguage." 16.
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2022-11-21T17:02:40Z
mit.journal.volume16en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
mit.metadata.statusAuthority Work and Publication Information Neededen_US


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