rffrydr
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 Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: The Ear of the Beholder |
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In this time of "globalization" and a market for every country and a country for every market it's easy to think we're speaking an universal language. Back to basics:
| Quote: | | Ani Patel: It's been known for over a hundred years that if you play simple non-linguistic tone sequences that have some sort of structure to them, for example alternating long and short tones, that people perceive that as a repeating chunk or a group of some kind. And the claim was that it was universal that people all over the world heard these simple patterns in the same ways. So for example the long-short pattern, repeating babum, babum, babum short-long patterns, as opposed to the logical alternative possible perception which is repeating long-short patterns like barbum, barbum, barbum. Now what we found was that speakers of American and Japanese actually grouped that simple pattern in different ways. Americans agreed with the so-called universal principles as hearing it as a repeating short-long group but many Japanese strongly heard the opposite pattern, they heard a repeating long-short group. |
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm May 5
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