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Music psychology

the hypothesis, going back to Darwin, that a song-like communication system preceded both music and language in human evolution.

In music psychology, musical protolanguage refers to the hypothesis, going back to Darwin, that a song-like communication system preceded both music and language in human evolution. This meaning comes from Fitch (2006) in Cognition.[1]

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cognition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs hypothesis2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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Fitch, W. T. (2006). The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective. Cognition, 100(1), 173-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.009

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