Sentences with phrase «tonal languages»

This especially goes for tonal languages like Chinese and Thai.

Hazel Muir reports that those who speak tonal languages are more likely to have perfect pitch (2 May, p 10).

In a paper that will be presented on November 4 at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn of the Department of Psychology at the University of California San Diego and Mark Dolson of E - mu / Creative Technology Center show that native speakers of tonal languages, even those with no musical training whatsoever, exhibit a remarkable ability to sound perfect pitches.

Only those who practice music or speak tonal languages retain pitch as part of their concept formation.

By examining the correlation between humidity and the role of tone in more than 3700 languages, scientists found that tonal languages are remarkably rare in arid regions like Central Europe, whereas languages with complex tone pitches are prevalent in relatively humid regions such as the tropics, subtropical Asia, and Central Africa.

Other tonal languages besides Mandarin include Thai, Yoruba and Xhosa.

boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language.

«If the United Kingdom had been a humid jungle, English may also have developed into a tonal language,» they claim.

Ladd says that he and Dediu now plan to look at whether possession of ASPM - D or microcephalin - D affects the ability to learn a tonal language in individual subjects.

For example, students who are fluent in a tonal language, such as Mandarin, tend to have a greater understanding of math concepts — and some special - education students in language - immersion programs score as well on assessments as their general - education peers in English - only programs.

The proposed composite forms transmute into a tonal language that allows the artifacts to speak once more from their empirical form.

Not exact matches

I have sympathy for people who have trouble with English, if their first language is tonal, or not Indo - European.

Owen also has no verbal communication, but he is learning signs and has some tonal variation that may develop into language someday.

They are picking up speech patterns, tonal differences which help them learn and process language, and they can sense your love and affection for them in your voice.

However music started — and it may be that the evolution of rhythmic sense is quite different from that of tonal sense — it has now taken up residence and demands many, many different parts of the brain, certainly more than language.

«In all languages, tonal or atonal, click or sign language, written or spoken, it's so far been the left hemisphere that appears to do most of the interpretation,» says Güntürkün.

Prospecting Notes About Sounds July 21 - September 7 2012 Opening Reception July 21 Prospecting Notes About Sounds consists of notes that led to the production of the LP Whistling and Language Transfiguration, which uses the tonal qualities of the Zapotec language...

His repeated minimal palette correlates to his obsessive interest in line and form, drawing, and monochromatic and tonal values, while developing a complex language of pictorial and sculptural signs.

He has chiselled out a compositional language and tonal spectrum that are his own.

Trying to sing Scandinavian songs in original languages and let the tonal patterns of the Norwegian and Swedish add life to the melodies.