Re: Rating Languages

I think I remember one of my profs(?) mentioneing that linguistic tone and
musical tone seemed to be handled by differen areas in the brain.  Anyone
know if that's correct?

Adam

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>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Rating Languages
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:04:32 +0200
>
>At 08:46 2001-09-22 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
>>On
>>the other hand, if you can't memorize a few thousand characters
>>and are tone-deaf, then Chinese must be hard.
>
>Just a thought: do tone-deaf people have a handicap in societies speaking a
>tone-language?  Then again maybe not.  I'm pretty tone-deaf myself, and I
>manage the two Swedish word-tones...
>
>
>
>/BP 8^)>
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