File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 108


Date: Mon, 21 Dec 98 09:10 CST
Subject: ...Events


>Language, presumably, is not a pre-natal experience.
 
Just a note on this assumption:  The baby in the womb hears the
mother's heart, breathing and other body sounds as well as her voice, and even
the voices of others nearby.  This is one way the newborn infant "recognizes"
its mother, a mutual recognition upon which everything depends. And the
rhythms of heartbeat, breath, motion, rest, and so on may give the context
for "learning" everything.  I think it is very difficult to say, then, where
language begins.
 
Ingrid M.
 
 

   

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