[Xmca-l] Re: language and music

Andy Blunden andyb@marxists.org
Thu Nov 22 16:51:15 PST 2018


https://www.smh.com.au/national/aussie-brain-mapper-discovers-part-of-brain-that-lets-you-play-piano-20181122-p50hlm.html

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 23/11/2018 6:31 am, James Ma wrote:
> Greg, your articles sound exciting. I'm going to read. 
> Thank you for sharing. James
>
> Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com 
> <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>> 于 2018年11月22日周四 
> 17:55写道:
>
>     James and Helena (and others),
>
>     Martin checked me offline for putting forward a notion
>     of intersubjectivity that presumes that subjects are
>     prior to intersubjectivity.
>     I entirely agree with Martin's concern that a properly
>     dialectical notion of the subject would recognize that
>     intersubjectivity and subjectivity are mutually
>     constitutive (and perhaps we should just speak of
>     "intersubjects"?).
>
>     In fact, I happen to have two papers (attached) that
>     seek to forward such a notion of mutual constitution
>     of subjectivity and intersubjectivity (and beyond).
>     One is in the idiom of self and frame (Goffman 1973)
>     and the other in the idiom of subjectivity and stance
>     (Du Bois 2007 - more on that in a sec). In the stance
>     paper, I draw on the notion of contract as it pertains
>     to right (I even briefly cite Fichte and Hegel) as a
>     way of trying to capture some of the ways that
>     subjectivity is real-ized (Bakhtin speaks of subjects
>     being "consummated") in the interstitial space between
>     self and other (not just other subjects, but also
>     bodies and things that can serve to take stances
>     toward subjects), and as captured by Du Bois'
>     undertheorized notion of "stance ownership" - which I
>     seek to theorize in this paper.
>
>     With regard to Bakhtin, I'd love to hear more. I'd
>     note that John Du Bois' notion of dialogic syntax
>     might be particularly relevant here. He draws on
>     Bakhtin to make the case that syntax is fundamentally
>     dialogical. I wonder if others are familiar and/or
>     have any thoughts on this approach and how it might
>     fit with Vygotsky's work?
>
>     Helena, I didn't mean to hijack your intentions in
>     bringing up Bakhtin - I wholeheartedly second a
>     conversation (bad conversational participant that I
>     am!) about Bakhtin!
>
>     (and perhaps I should have added this to a different
>     thread - I still find the asynchrony of listserves
>     make it difficult to maintain "a conversation" in any
>     traditional sense - chaining is normal in face-to-face
>     conversations, but whereas in f2f conversations
>     everyone more or less goes along with a single chain
>     of topics (and the negotiation thereof is a big part
>     of making conversations - and making subjects!) in
>     listserve conversations, the chaining can spin off
>     into many directions at once and the coherence of the
>     conversation can quickly be lost (and the subjects
>     with it!).)
>
>     (And one last parenthetical note, in typing
>     "listserve" I just realized how old fashioned we are!
>     Are there other more contemporary mediated spaces out
>     there where Vygotsky is being discussed? Might such
>     conversational spaces allow for more involvement from
>     and animation of a next generation of CHAT thinkers?
>     Just wondering...).
>
>     -greg
>
>
>     On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:42 PM Helena Worthen
>     <helenaworthen@gmail.com
>     <mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Outlines?  This sent me to my dog-eared (but lying
>         on the shelf for 20 years) copy of /The Dialogic
>         Imagination/, Michael Holquist’s collectiion of
>         four essays by Bakhtin.
>
>         So, on the topic of edges, outlines and
>         constraints on the one hand, and coherence and
>         wholeness on the other, I’d like to offer the
>         concept of “utterance,” a speech act performed in
>         order to generate, sooner or later, a
>         counterstatement. (I’m cribbing from Holquist’s
>         glossary on pg 434.) An utterance can be brief or
>         long; the defining feature of it is that gets a
>         response — it’s part of a dialog. A dialog can be
>         you and me talking, or it can be an entire
>         discourse; a discourse itself can be an utterance.
>         Individual novels are utterances in the genre of
>         novels, which Holquist says is “a horizon of
>         expectations brought to bear on a certain class of
>         text types…”
>
>         Anyone else want to talk about Bahktin? Then we
>         could talk about the way a song coheres and
>         musical improvisation operates under a horizon of
>         expectations, but come to think of it, does not
>         generate a response.
>
>         Something else: I’m still trying to learn
>         Vietnamese. The CD I am listening to now, produced
>         by the University of Social Sciences andHUmanities
>         in HoChiMinh City, lists each track as a “song.”
>         Thus, Track 1, “Excuse me, what is your name?”
>         appears on the CD menu as “Song 1.”
>
>         H
>
>         Helena Worthen
>         helenaworthen@gmail.com
>         <mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com>
>         Berkeley, CA 94707 510-828-2745
>         Blog US/ Viet Nam:
>         helenaworthen.wordpress.com
>         <http://helenaworthen.wordpress.com>
>         skype: helena.worthen1
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>         On Nov 21, 2018, at 12:07 AM, Alfredo Jornet Gil
>>         <a.j.gil@ils.uio.no <mailto:a.j.gil@ils.uio.no>>
>>         wrote:
>>
>>         Henry's remarks about no directors and symphonic
>>         potential ​of conversation reminded me of
>>         G. Bateson's metalogue "why do things have
>>         outlines" (attached). ​Implicitly, it raises the
>>         question of units and elements, of how a song, a
>>         dance, a poem, a conversation, to make sense,
>>         they must have a recognizable outline​​, even in
>>         improvisation​; they must be wholes, or suggest
>>         wholes. That makes them "predictable". And yet,
>>         when you are immersed in a conversation, the fact
>>         that you can never exactly predict what comes
>>         next is the whole point that keep us talking,
>>         dancing, drawing, etc!
>>
>>
>>         Alfredo
>>
>>
>>         ------------------------------------------------------------
>>         *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>
>>         <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>> on
>>         behalf of HENRY SHONERD <hshonerd@gmail.com
>>         <mailto:hshonerd@gmail.com>>
>>         *Sent:* 21 November 2018 06:22
>>         *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>         *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: language and music
>>         I’d like to add to the call and response
>>         conversation that discourse, this conversation
>>         itself, is staged. There are performers and and
>>         an audience made up partly of performers
>>         themselves. How many are lurkers, as I am
>>         usually? This conversation has no director, but
>>         there are leaders. There is symphonic potential.
>>         And even gestural potential, making the chat a
>>         dance. All on line.:)
>>         Henry
>>
>>
>>
>>>         On Nov 20, 2018, at 9:05 PM, mike cole
>>>         <mcole@ucsd.edu <mailto:mcole@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         For many years I used the work of Ellen
>>>         Dissenyake to teach comm classes about
>>>         language/music/development. She is quite unusual
>>>         in ways that might find interest here.
>>>
>>>         https://ellendissanayake.com/
>>>
>>>         mike
>>>
>>>         On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 2:16 PM James Ma
>>>         <jamesma320@gmail.com
>>>         <mailto:jamesma320@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>             Hello Simangele,
>>>
>>>             In semiotic terms, whatever each of the
>>>             participants has constructed internally is
>>>             the signified, i.e. his or her understanding
>>>             and interpretation. When it is vocalised
>>>             (spoken out), it becomes the signifier to
>>>             the listener. What's more, when the
>>>             participants work together to compose a
>>>             story impromptu, each of their signifiers
>>>             turns into a new signified – a shared,
>>>             newly-established understanding, woven into
>>>             the fabric of meaning making.
>>>
>>>             By the way, in Chinese language, words for
>>>             singing and dancing have long been used
>>>             inseparably. As I see it, they are
>>>             semiotically indexed to, or adjusted to
>>>             allow for, the feelings, emotions, actions
>>>             and interactions of a consciousness who is
>>>             experiencing the singing and dancing. Here
>>>             are some idioms:
>>>
>>>             酣歌醉舞- singing and dancing rapturously
>>>
>>>             村歌社舞 - dancing village and singing club
>>>
>>>             燕歌赵舞 - citizens of ancient Yan and Zhao good
>>>             at singing and dancing, hence referring to
>>>             wonderful songs and dances
>>>
>>>             舞榭歌楼- a church or building set up for
>>>             singing and dancing
>>>
>>>
>>>             James
>>>
>>>             */________________________________________________/*
>>>
>>>             /*James Ma *Independent Scholar
>>>             //https://oxford.academia.edu/JamesMa /
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 19:08, Simangele
>>>             Mayisela <simangele.mayisela@wits.ac.za
>>>             <mailto:simangele.mayisela@wits.ac.za>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Colleagues,
>>>
>>>                 This conversation is getting even more
>>>                 interesting, not that I have an informed
>>>                 answer for you Rob, I can only think of
>>>                 the National Anthems where people stand
>>>                 still when singing, even then this is
>>>                 observed only in international events.
>>>
>>>                 Other occasions when people are likely
>>>                 not to move when singing when there is
>>>                 death and the mood is sombre. Otherwise
>>>                 singing and rhythmic body movement,
>>>                 called dance are a norm.
>>>
>>>                 This then makes me  wonder what this
>>>                 means in terms of cognitive functioning,
>>>                 in the light of Vygotsky’s developmental
>>>                 stages – of language and thought. Would
>>>                 the body movement constitute the
>>>                 externalisation of the thoughts
>>>                 contained in the music?
>>>
>>>                 Helena – the video you are relating
>>>                 about reminds of the language teaching
>>>                 or group therapy technique- where a
>>>                 group of learners (or participants in OD
>>>                 settings) are instructed to tell a
>>>                 single coherent and logical story as a
>>>                 group. They all take turns to say a
>>>                 sentence, a sentence of not more than 6
>>>                 words (depending on the instructor ),
>>>                 each time linking your sentence to the
>>>                 sentence of previous articulator, with
>>>                 the next person also doing the same,
>>>                 until the story sounds complete with
>>>                 conclusion. More important is that they
>>>                 compose this story impromptu, It with
>>>                 such stories that group dynamics are
>>>                 analysed, and in group therapy cases,
>>>                 collective experiences of trauma are
>>>                 shared.  I suppose this is an example of
>>>                 cooperative activity, although
>>>                 previously I would have thought of it as
>>>                 just an “activity”
>>>
>>>                 Simangele
>>>
>>>                 *From:*xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
>>>                 <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>
>>>                 [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
>>>                 <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>]
>>>                 *On Behalf Of *robsub@ariadne.org.uk
>>>                 <mailto:robsub@ariadne.org.uk>
>>>                 *Sent:* Friday, 16 November 2018 21:01
>>>                 *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>>                 <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu
>>>                 <mailto:xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>>;
>>>                 Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com
>>>                 <mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com>>
>>>                 *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: Michael C. Corballis
>>>
>>>                 I remember being told once that many
>>>                 languages do not have separate words for
>>>                 singing and dancing, because if you sing
>>>                 you want to move - until western
>>>                 civilisation beats it out of you.
>>>
>>>                 Does anybody know if this is actually
>>>                 true, or is it complete cod?
>>>
>>>                 If it is true, does it have something to
>>>                 say about the relationship between the
>>>                 physical body and the development of speech?
>>>
>>>                 Rob
>>>
>>>                 On 16/11/2018 17:29, Helena Worthen wrote:
>>>
>>>                     I am very interested in where this
>>>                     conversation is going. I remember
>>>                     being in a Theories of Literacy
>>>                     class in which Glynda Hull, the
>>>                     instructor, showed a video of a
>>>                     singing circle somewhere in the
>>>                     Amazon, where an incredibly
>>>                     complicated pattern of musical
>>>                     phrases wove in and out among the
>>>                     singers underlaid by drumming that
>>>                     included turn-taking, call and
>>>                     response, you name it. Maybe 20
>>>                     people were involved, all pushing
>>>                     full steam ahead to create something
>>>                     together that they all seemed to
>>>                     know about but wouldn’t happen until
>>>                     they did it.
>>>
>>>                     Certainly someone has studied the
>>>                     relationship of musical
>>>                     communication (improvised or
>>>                     otherwise), speech and gesture? I
>>>                     have asked musicians about this and
>>>                     get blank looks. Yet clearly you can
>>>                     tell when you listen to different
>>>                     kinds of music, not just Amazon drum
>>>                     and chant circles, that there is
>>>                     some kind of speech - like potential
>>>                     embedded there. The Sonata form is
>>>                     clearly involves exposition (they
>>>                     even use that word).
>>>
>>>                     For example: the soundtrack to the
>>>                     Coen Brothers’ film Fargo opens with
>>>                     a musical theme that says, as
>>>                     clearly as if we were reading aloud
>>>                     from some children’s book, “I am now
>>>                     going to tell you a very strange
>>>                     story that sounds impossible but I
>>>                     promise you every word of it is
>>>                     true…da-de-da-de-da.’ Only it
>>>                     doesn’t take that many words.
>>>
>>>                     (18) Fargo (1996) - 'Fargo, North
>>>                     Dakota' (Opening) scene [1080] - YouTube
>>>
>>>                     Helena Worthen
>>>
>>>                     helenaworthen@gmail.com
>>>                     <mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>                     Berkeley, CA 94707 510-828-2745
>>>
>>>                     Blog US/ Viet Nam:
>>>
>>>                     helenaworthen.wordpress.com
>>>                     <http://helenaworthen.wordpress.com/>
>>>
>>>                     skype: helena.worthen1
>>>
>>>                         On Nov 16, 2018, at 8:56 AM,
>>>                         HENRY SHONERD
>>>                         <hshonerd@gmail.com
>>>                         <mailto:hshonerd@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                         Andy and Peter,
>>>
>>>                         I like the turn taking principle
>>>                         a lot. It links language and
>>>                         music very nicely: call and
>>>                         response. By voice and ear.
>>>                         While gesture is linked to
>>>                         visual art. In face-to-face
>>>                         conversation there is this
>>>                         rhythmically entrained
>>>                         interaction. It’s not just
>>>                         cooperative, it’s
>>>                         verbal/gestural art. Any human
>>>                         work is potentially a work of
>>>                         art. Vera John-Steiner and
>>>                         Holbrook Mahn have talked about
>>>                         how conversation can be a
>>>                         co-construction “at the speed of
>>>                         thought”. Heady stuff taking
>>>                         part, or just listening to, this
>>>                         call and response between smart
>>>                         people.  And disheartening and
>>>                         destructive when we give up on
>>>                         dialog.
>>>
>>>                         As I write this, I realize that
>>>                         the prosodic aspects of spoken
>>>                         language (intonation) are
>>>                         gestural as well. It’s
>>>                         simplistic to restrict gesture
>>>                         to visual signals. But I would
>>>                         say gesture is prototypically
>>>                         visual, an accompaniment to the
>>>                         voice. In surfing the web, one
>>>                         can find some interesting things
>>>                         on paralanguage which complicate
>>>                         the distinction between language
>>>                         and gesture. I think it speaks
>>>                         to the embodiment of language in
>>>                         the senses.
>>>
>>>                         Henry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                             On Nov 16, 2018, at 7:00 AM,
>>>                             Peter Feigenbaum [Staff]
>>>                             <pfeigenbaum@fordham.edu
>>>                             <mailto:pfeigenbaum@fordham.edu>>
>>>                             wrote:
>>>
>>>                             Andy,
>>>
>>>                             I couldn't agree more. And
>>>                             thanks for introducing me to
>>>                             the notion of delayed
>>>                             gratification as a
>>>                             precondition for sharing and
>>>                             turn-taking.
>>>
>>>                             That's a feature I hadn't
>>>                             considered before in
>>>                             connection with speech
>>>                             communication. It makes
>>>                             sense that each participant
>>>                             would need
>>>
>>>                             to exercise patience in
>>>                             order to wait out someone
>>>                             else's turn.
>>>
>>>                             Much obliged.
>>>
>>>                             Peter
>>>
>>>                             On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:50
>>>                             AM Andy Blunden
>>>                             <andyb@marxists.org
>>>                             <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>>
>>>                             wrote:
>>>
>>>                                 Interesting, Peter.
>>>
>>>                                 Corballis, oddly in my
>>>                                 view, places a lot of
>>>                                 weight in so-called
>>>                                 mirror neurons to
>>>                                 explain perception of
>>>                                 the intentionality of
>>>                                 others. It seems
>>>                                 blindingly obvious to me
>>>                                 that cooperative
>>>                                 activity, specifically
>>>                                 participating in
>>>                                 projects in which
>>>                                 individuals share a
>>>                                 common not-present
>>>                                 object, is a form of
>>>                                 behaviour which begets
>>>                                 the necessary perceptive
>>>                                 abilities. I have also
>>>                                 long been of the view
>>>                                 that delayed
>>>                                 gratification, as a
>>>                                 precondition for sharing
>>>                                 and turn-taking, as a
>>>                                 matter of fact, is an
>>>                                 important aspect of
>>>                                 sociality fostering the
>>>                                 development of speech,
>>>                                 and the upright gait
>>>                                 which frees the hands
>>>                                 for carrying food back
>>>                                 to camp where it can be
>>>                                 shared is important.
>>>                                 None of which
>>>                                 presupposes tools, only
>>>                                 cooperation.
>>>
>>>                                 Andy
>>>
>>>                                 ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>                                 Andy Blunden
>>>                                 http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>>>                                 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ethicalpolitics.org_ablunden_index.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=mXj3yhpYNklTxyN3KioIJ0ECmPHilpf4N2p9PBMATWs&m=itd0qPWlE7uAuyEX0ii8ohEoZegfdMAOOLf-YoaEqqs&s=-uwTjZDhHtJM2EFdBS-rXLTptADQdSGAcibaav-mhJw&e=>
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>>>
>>>                                 On 17/11/2018 12:36 am,
>>>                                 Peter Feigenbaum [Staff]
>>>                                 wrote:
>>>
>>>                                     If I might chime in
>>>                                     to this discussion:
>>>
>>>                                     I submit that the
>>>                                     key cooperative
>>>                                     activity underlying
>>>                                     speech communication
>>>                                     is *turn-taking*. I
>>>                                     don't know how that
>>>                                     activity or rule
>>>                                     came into being,
>>>
>>>                                     but once it did, the
>>>                                     activity of
>>>                                     *exchanging*
>>>                                     utterances became
>>>                                     possible. And with
>>>                                     exchange came the
>>>                                     complementarity of
>>>                                     speaking and
>>>
>>>                                     listening roles, and
>>>                                     the activity of
>>>                                     alternating
>>>                                     conversational roles
>>>                                     and mental
>>>                                     perspectives. Turn-taking
>>>                                     is a key process in
>>>                                     human development.
>>>
>>>                                     Peter
>>>
>>>                                     On Thu, Nov 15, 2018
>>>                                     at 9:21 PM Andy
>>>                                     Blunden
>>>                                     <andyb@marxists.org
>>>                                     <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>>
>>>                                     wrote:
>>>
>>>                                         Oddly, Amazon
>>>                                         delivered the
>>>                                         book to me
>>>                                         yesterday and I
>>>                                         am currently on
>>>                                         p.5.
>>>                                         Fortunately,
>>>                                         Corballis
>>>                                         provides a
>>>                                         synopsis of his
>>>                                         book at the end,
>>>                                         which I
>>>                                         sneak-previewed
>>>                                         last night.
>>>
>>>                                         The interesting
>>>                                         thing to me is
>>>                                         his claim,
>>>                                         similar to that
>>>                                         of Merlin
>>>                                         Donald, which
>>>                                         goes like this.
>>>
>>>                                         It would be
>>>                                         absurd to
>>>                                         suggest that
>>>                                         proto-humans
>>>                                         discovered that
>>>                                         they had this
>>>                                         unique and
>>>                                         wonderful vocal
>>>                                         apparatus and
>>>                                         decided to use
>>>                                         it for speech.
>>>                                         Clearly_there
>>>                                         was rudimentary
>>>                                         language before
>>>                                         speech was
>>>                                         humanly
>>>                                         possible_. In
>>>                                         development, a
>>>                                         behaviour is
>>>                                         always present
>>>                                         before the
>>>                                         physiological
>>>                                         adaptations
>>>                                         which facilitate
>>>                                         it come into
>>>                                         being. I.e,
>>>                                         proto-humans
>>>                                         found themselves
>>>                                         in circumstances
>>>                                         where it made
>>>                                         sense to develop
>>>                                         interpersonal,
>>>                                         voluntary
>>>                                         communication,
>>>                                         and to begin
>>>                                         with they used
>>>                                         what they had -
>>>                                         the ability to
>>>                                         mime and
>>>                                         gesture, make
>>>                                         facial
>>>                                         expressions and
>>>                                         vocalisations
>>>                                         (all of which
>>>                                         BTW can
>>>                                         reference
>>>                                         non-present
>>>                                         entities and
>>>                                         situations) This
>>>                                         is an activity
>>>                                         which further
>>>                                         produces the
>>>                                         conditions for
>>>                                         its own
>>>                                         development.
>>>                                         Eventually, over
>>>                                         millions of
>>>                                         years, the vocal
>>>                                         apparatus
>>>                                         evolved under
>>>                                         strong selection
>>>                                         pressure due to
>>>                                         the practice of
>>>                                         non-speech
>>>                                         communication as
>>>                                         an integral part
>>>                                         of their
>>>                                         evolutionary
>>>                                         niche. In other
>>>                                         words,
>>>                                         rudimentary
>>>                                         wordless speech
>>>                                         gradually became
>>>                                         modern speech,
>>>                                         along with all
>>>                                         the accompanying
>>>                                         facial
>>>                                         expressions and
>>>                                         hand movements.
>>>
>>>                                         It just seems to
>>>                                         me that, as you
>>>                                         suggest,
>>>                                         collective
>>>                                         activity must
>>>                                         have been a part
>>>                                         of those
>>>                                         conditions
>>>                                         fostering
>>>                                         communication
>>>                                         (something found
>>>                                         in our nearest
>>>                                         evolutionary
>>>                                         cousins who also
>>>                                         have the
>>>                                         elements of
>>>                                         rudimentary
>>>                                         speech)  - as
>>>                                         was increasing
>>>                                         tool-using,
>>>                                         tool-making,
>>>                                         tool-giving and
>>>                                         tool-instructing.
>>>
>>>                                         Andy
>>>
>>>                                         ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>                                         Andy Blunden
>>>                                         http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>>>                                         <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ethicalpolitics.org_ablunden_index.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=mXj3yhpYNklTxyN3KioIJ0ECmPHilpf4N2p9PBMATWs&m=VlOXr8x02-mghKHGod2LwGx8_X-LHNRmDI_elI-7rKI&s=A3k5oeQ13zGCPUbWibdOb2KNZT4q__fLyCwugyULUDw&e=>
>>>
>>>
>>>                                         On 16/11/2018
>>>                                         12:58 pm, Arturo
>>>                                         Escandon wrote:
>>>
>>>                                             Dear Andy,
>>>
>>>                                             Michael
>>>                                             Tomasello
>>>                                             has made
>>>                                             similar
>>>                                             claims,
>>>                                             grounding
>>>                                             the surge of
>>>                                             articulated
>>>                                             language on
>>>                                             innate
>>>                                             co-operativism
>>>                                             and
>>>                                             collective
>>>                                             activity.
>>>
>>>                                             https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-child-language/90B84B8F3BB2D32E9FA9E2DFAF4D2BEB
>>>                                             <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cambridge.org_core_books_cambridge-2Dhandbook-2Dof-2Dchild-2Dlanguage_90B84B8F3BB2D32E9FA9E2DFAF4D2BEB&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=mXj3yhpYNklTxyN3KioIJ0ECmPHilpf4N2p9PBMATWs&m=VlOXr8x02-mghKHGod2LwGx8_X-LHNRmDI_elI-7rKI&s=vxJZooXRDYwTRrM4dzWBbLfUhF9HhmUvU3ouq6sbwPI&e=>
>>>
>>>                                             Best
>>>
>>>                                             Arturo
>>>
>>>                                             -- 
>>>
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