Iconic Associations Between Vowel Acoustics and Musical Patterns, and the Musical Protolanguage Hypothesis
Vowels are the most musical and sonic elements of speech. Previous studies found non-arbitrary associations between vowel intrinsic pitch and musical pitch in senseless syllables. In songs containing strings of senseless syllables, vowels are connected to melodic direction in close correspondence to...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.887739/full |