Is perception of rhythm tied to language?

An interesting article in Physorg summarizes research that indicates that the perception of rhythm is tied to one's culture.  People from different cultures perceive different rhythms in identical sequences of sound. Read the article: Speakers of different languages perceive rhythm differently - Thanks, Jeremy

Posted on: Dec 04, 2006

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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thanks for the pointer! I enjoyed reading that paper :-) btw, the lay language paper by the authors can be found here: http://www.acoustics.org/press/152nd/iversen_patel_ohgushi.html

Posted by elias on December 04, 2006 at 11:43 PM EST #

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