Re: Personal langs and converse of aux
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 7, 2001, 3:13 |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:59:40 -0500, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
>I wonder, does perfect/relative pitch help at all in learning tonal
>languages, or does it just confuse the issue? (As someone with perfect
>pitch I can attest that it *often* confuses the issue in musical things,
>or maybe I'm just slow!)
>
>YHL
I think perfect pitch might help with languages that have level tones. I
don't think it makes much difference for rising or falling tones, since
those don't have a fixed pitch to identify. In other words, it might be
easier for someone with perfect pitch to distinguish between high and low
level tones, than between high and low tones that are either both rising or
both falling. Of course, different speakers will use different absolute
pitches, but it shouldn't be hard to adjust to a particular speaker's set
of pitches.
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