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Re: Tone Deafness
At 4:45 PM 12/5/95, Rebecca Mercuri wrote:
>Is anyone REALLY tone deaf? For example in countries like China with
>zillions of people, and where tone is an important part of the language,
>are people there unable to communicate because they are tone deaf?
How do you whisper a tone language? Or for that matter, how do you whisper
There are other clues (formant frequencies?) that might help. Perhaps tone
deaf people can still tell relative directions, but not intervals? I'll
have to check out Dan's references.