On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 2:41:11 PM UTC-5, litewave wrote:   
   > Pitch-based language? Seems like something the right hemisphere might be   
   interested in, as it is more sensitive to the tone of voice and melodies.   
      
   Both hemispheres are active in language processing. But I imagine the map will   
   be different for tonal languages.   
      
   The right brain attends to novelty, the left brain to the familiar. The right   
   brain listens for differences in sound and noise for something new. When it   
   recognizes speech, it processes the signal and turns it over to the left   
   brain. The left brain    
   processes that which is the 'same'. Which is to say, that it inhibits the   
   right brain, simplifies the perception, and treats unique sounds as symbols.   
      
   Or, I could be way off.   
      
   I could look it up--the brain and tonal languages--on the oracle which is the   
   Internet (indeed have had to divert my eyes to a few Google searches), but   
   will finish reading the book first.   
      
      
   Research indicates that tonal language natives have significant abilities in   
   perfect pitch recognition and reproduction. I believe we've covered that   
   before otherwhere.   
      
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