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Ch. 8 - Language and culture

#107: April - May 2012 (Non-Fiction)
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What I found intriguing was the 'possibility that language may have been preceded by a form of communal singing' . I had never thought about this before, but it does make sense, especially as he points out that 'music clearly has very deep emotional valency for us'.
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