QUOTE : Every moment of time, language is renewed from the past and modified by a series of escapes. Ten we must admit, if not a language's birth, at least a movement of language toward its more expressive forms from the less expressive...Our language is less emotional than its rudimentary forms, since there would not have been an initial difference between the act of speaking and singing...The initial form of language would thus have been a kind of song. Men would have sung their feelings before communicating their thought. Similarly, writing was first painting, as language was first singing. In analyzing their song, it would have become a linguistic sign. It is by the exercise of singing that men would have had the experience of their expressive power. We are searching, thus, to describe certain forms of prelinguistic expression that, without being causes of language, would be language's cradle.