This study analyses reflections on music and considers ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning.

The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. It has escaped notice, however, that music f

An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the commun

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the s

A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book exp