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Language experience predicts music processing in ½ million speakers of 54 languages

2021-10-20

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Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to shape auditory processing in ways that generalize beyond the perception of linguistic pitch to the perception of pitch in other domains like music. To examine this, we first conducted a meta-analysis, finding moderate evidence for this idea, bu...

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Literature Corpus work: 9a68b962-e27b-569a-be74-7230c4bc6996
DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.18.464888

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