Lumaca Massimo, Baggio Giosuè
Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University; and The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg.
Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Artif Life. 2018 Spring;24(2):154-156. doi: 10.1162/artl_a_00258. Epub 2018 Apr 17.
In their commentary on our work, Ravignani and Verhoef (2018) raise concerns about two methodological aspects of our experimental paradigm (the signaling game): (1) the use of melodic signals of fixed length and duration, and (2) the fact that signals are endowed with meaning. They argue that music is hardly a semantic system and that our methodological choices may limit the capacity of our paradigm to shed light on the emergence and evolution of a number of putative musical universals. We reply that musical systems are semantic systems and that the aim of our research is not to study musical universals as such, but to compare more closely the kinds of principles that organize meaning and structure in linguistic and musical systems.
在对我们工作的评论中，拉维尼亚尼和韦尔霍夫（2018年）对我们实验范式（信号博弈）的两个方法学方面提出了担忧：（1）使用固定长度和持续时间的旋律信号，以及（2）信号被赋予意义这一事实。他们认为音乐很难说是一个语义系统，并且我们的方法学选择可能会限制我们的范式揭示一些假定音乐普遍性的出现和演变的能力。我们回应称，音乐系统是语义系统，我们研究的目的不是研究音乐普遍性本身，而是更紧密地比较在语言和音乐系统中组织意义和结构的各类原则。
