Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia

Dan Sulani scripsit:

> One can put it into perspective this way:
>     1) Poets --- manipulate the lexico-semantic and syntactic _and_
> phonological levels of language[...]
>     2) Prose writers --- manipulate only the lexico-semantic and
> syntactic levels [...]
>     3) Scat artists --- manipulate only the phonological level [...]
>     4) Normal speakers --- (including poets, writers, and scat artists
> in "normal speech mode") manipulate all levels
>          of a language, but they do it to a far less degree than is
> normally realized.
Or to take a Marxist perspective:

Groucho uses con-semantics ("bull and cow" instead of "bill and coo"
for what lovers do);

Chico uses con-phonology (pseudo-Italian alternating with clipped
final syllables, e.g. /REzERvejS/ for 'reservation';

Harpo uses con-phonetics (horn squawks, drumbeats, silence);

Gummo uses normal speech.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
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