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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?
Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note first. But there's a much better chance you could successfully name the notes if you are a fluent speaker of an East Asian tonal language, such as Vietnamese, Mandarin1 or Cantonese. That's the finding of a study by U.C. San Diego and U.S.C. researchers presented May 21st at the Acoustical2 Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. Two hundred three U.S.C music students listened to musical notes. The Asian musicians who spoke3 a tone language fluently exhibited almost perfect perfect pitch, far outperforming Caucasian fluent in a non-tone language like English. And they also outdid other musicians of Asian ancestry4 who did not speak a tonal language. So it would seem that perfect pitch is more nurture5 than nature. By the way the notes are D, E & G, assuming that your MP3 player is in tune6.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.
1 Mandarin | |
n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的 | |
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2 acoustical | |
adj. 听觉的,声学的,音响学的 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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n.祖先,家世 | |
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n.养育,照顾,教育;滋养,营养品;vt.养育,给与营养物,教养,扶持 | |
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n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 | |
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