File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 110


Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:23:30 -0800
Subject: RE: ...Events


Perhaps it begins when the sperm eavesdrops at conception. Sorry, couldn't
resist.


>>>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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