Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...

This news release is available in German. The weather impacts not only upon our mood but also our voice. An international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for ...

Among the many ways you can define language differences, one of the easiest is by the use of tone. For some languages (like English), the differences between words that are pronounced similarly has to ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has called for greater efforts to preserve Nigeria’s indigenous languages, describing them as essential to protecting the nation’s history, identity and ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 31: Name That Tone Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab If you heard a pair of melodies that differ by just one note, could you tell the ...

In tonal languages, voice pitch inflections change the meaning of words, such that the brain processes pitch not merely as an acoustic characterization of sound but as semantic information. In ...

In some languages, the meaning of each word is not only conveyed by the order of its syllables, but also by the pitch. Tonal languages such as Cantonese, Mandarin or Yoruba are difficult to learn for ...

The very first cry of neonates is marked by their maternal language. This seems to be especially apparent in tonal languages, where pitch and pitch fluctuation determine the meaning of words. Chinese ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...