Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and
language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of
language, theorists at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and
the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) advocate that music
underlies the ability to acquire language.
"Spoken language is a special type of music," said Anthony Brandt,
co-author of a theory paper published online this month in the journal Frontiers in Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience.
"Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence, and
music is often treated as being dependent on or derived from language.
But from a developmental perspective, we argue that music comes first
and language arises from music."
"Infants listen first to sounds of language and only later to its
meaning," Brandt said. He noted that newborns' extensive abilities in
different aspects of speech perception depend on the discrimination of
the sounds of language -- "the most musical aspects of speech."
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