Re: tones & perfect pitch...

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> ...sorry if this is leaning toward off-topic, but some time ago I saw an
> article (in _Time_ or something not particularly scientific) that
> mentioned a study which showed that a very high proportion of
> tone-language speakers ended up with perfect pitch.  Can anyone
> confirm/deny this?  I don't speak any tonal languages (wish I did) and do
> have perfect pitch--it would be interesting to have a society with lots
> of perfect-pitched people, and have it interacting with poor "tone-deaf"
> (from their POV?) people of another society....
We actually just had a rather extended discussion on this subject about
a month ago or so.   Here was the article I dug up about it:

<http://vh80028.vh8.infi.net/heraldleader/news/110599/nationaldocs/05perfect-pitch.htm>

I am not a phoneticist, so I cannot vouch for its truth.

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