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It seems all participants in the study were recruited from within Hong Kong. I wonder if being speakers of tonal languages has any effect. I'd be interested in
by aklein 8y ago
It seems all participants in the study were recruited from within Hong Kong. I wonder if being speakers of tonal languages has any effect. I'd be interested in seeing if the study could be reproduced with speakers of non-tonal languages.
- aczerepinski 8y agoGreat catch, this is probably a huge detail.
- splonk 8y agoThere's definitely some research that suggests that tonal languages have some relation to ability to distinguish absolute pitch. http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/MP-2004-21_339-356.pdf http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/MP-2004-21_339-356.pdf > The findings from these three experiments are in accordance with the hypothesis that speakers of tone language employ absolute pitch as a feature of speech and that they refer to precise and stable absolute pitch templates in enunciating words. > The present study does not address the question of whether absolute pitch, when acquired as a feature of speech, later generalizes to music.