THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONS BETWEEN MUSIC AND LANGUAGE: A CROSS-MUSICAL IDIOM APPROACH FROM THE COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OF LANGUAGE AND MUSIC

摘要

Recently comparative biolinguistics has been proposed as a new research program to cope with variations in determining the language faculty (Boeckx, Hinzen & Benitez-Burraco, 2013). Our general aim is to link comparative music research and this program. Here we discuss the relations of the two domains with a cross-musical idiom approach based on a new dimension of the music-language comparison: the parallels between cross-musical idiom and cross-language (Francis, 2012): bi-musicality and bi-lingualism. Five specific points are going to be discussed.