Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:43:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Crosby <crosby_m-AT-rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: the origin of language


---Vadim Verenits <grimnes-AT-physic.ut.ee> wrote:
> In this post i`d like to cover the ideas of
N.J.Marr - a perfect example of that is called the
mythology in linguistics.

Vadim, you may be interested in an article I noticed
just yesterday in the online Journal of Memetics at
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1998/vol2/vaneechoutte_m&skoyles_jr.html
called "The memetic origin of language: modern humans
as musical primates" by Mario Vaneechoutte and John
Skoyles.

The article is rather long and I have barely begun to
look at it but it has a long section called "Problems
with Chomsky, Pinker and Deacon".  The first sentence
of the article follows:

"Song (musicality, singing capacity), we argue,
underlies both the evolutionary origin of human
language and its development during early childhood".

I'm intrigued that this might have resonances with
Deleuze and Guattari's "Of the Refrain" plateau... Mark
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