Co-variation of tonality in the music and speech of different cultures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Han, Shui'er ^a   Sundararajan, Janani ^a   Bowling, Daniel Liu ^a,b,c   Lake, Jessica ^c   Purves, Dale ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MUSIC; PITCH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH;

EID: 79957710247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020160     Document Type: Article

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