Re: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] resonance and higher key harps

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scientists are not so sure that it's linguistic...


http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v67n3/002033/0020
33.html

http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1997/06/609_tone.htm

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v62n2/970810/9708
10.html

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v62n2/970244/9702
44.html


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1789179.stm


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002
/01/14/MN169148.DTL

http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/sept2001/perfectpitch/index.html




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>Subject: Re: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] resonance and higher key harps
>Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:00:20 -0700
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>>The link to Asians and a tendency to absolute pitch is linguistic
>not 
>>ethnic.  Everything I've read on the subject seems to indicate that 
>>several of the Chinese languages and less so Vietnamese employ pitch
>as 
>>a device for communication.  When you realise that infants are born
>able 
>>to make and hear all of the sounds used in all of the languages and 
>>discard the ones they don't need to use as they acquire the language
>of 
>>their surroundings it seems likely that the higher incidence of
>absolute 
>>pitch in some Asian ethnic groups is a product of environment, not 
>>genetics.  The New York Times has had several interesting articles
>on 
>>this subject in their Science Times section, unfortuneately this was
>
>>some time ago and the information will now only be available from
>them 
>>if you pay for it.  I have oftentimes been able to get at Times
>articles 
>>sideways because they can persist on other people's sites or even
>have 
>>direct frre links to the Times articles.  Certainly an interesting
>area 
>>of discussion.  fjm
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