Fwd: [humanmarkup-comment] Speech and Melody: How DifferentParts of the Brain are Used Dep ending on the Language

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: Fwd: [humanmarkup-comment] Speech and Melody: How Dif

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From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: 'Rex Brooks' <rexb@starbourne.com>,
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:30:21 -0500
Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] Speech and Melody:  How Different Parts of the Brain are Used Dep
   ending on the Language
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> http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/06/30/brain.language.reut/index.html
> > This story is a fascinating tidbit
> > relating the parts of the brain used to process
> > speech and the dependency on the artifacts
> > of the particular language, in this
> > case, Mandarin.  One could ask some
> > questions:
> >  
> > 1.  How does such a language evolve
> > given the greater resource requirements
> > for processing the
> > language?
> >  
> > 2.  Do any unique capabilities emerge
> > as a result of this extra use of both
> > hemispheres of the brain?  For
> > example, parallel capabilities such as easy
> > of musical training?
> >  
> > 3. Do musicians, particularly
> > singers, rate higher than the average westerner
> > when learning Mandarin?  Does
> > learning Mandarin increase one's musical skills?
> >  
> > 4. While it is stated that
> > English-speakers have greater difficulty learning
> > Mandarin, are there miscommunications that
> > emerge more often when
> > an English speaker and a Mandarin speaker
> > interact that could be attributed
> > to this difference in the way the brain
> > processes the language?
> >  
> > 5.  Would any capabilities of HumanML
> > help with these problems of communication
> > beyond noting the fact of the melodic
> > dependencies of the presentation of the
> > Mandain sign sets?  Are some sign
> > sets more or less melodically dependent?
> >  
> > Fascinating stuff.  Beyond us here,
> > but the sorts of problems one might conceivably
> > bring to HumanML.  For example,
> > representation of the vocal utterance given a
> > library based on Rex's work is certainly
> > possible. 
> >  
> > len

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