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单词 sing-song theory
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sing-song theory
sing-song theory n. the theory (propounded by Jespersen) that language evolved from primitive singing.
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1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 40 Language has been traced by some to primitive rhythmic chants and to singing (the sing-song theory).
1973 Current Anthropol. XIV. 27/3 He makes no reference to Jespersen's classic ‘sing-song’ theory of language origin (1922). Though this label was applied to Jespersen's hypothesis..by his critics, there seems little doubt that he believed language to have been chanted before it was spoken.
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