Absolute Pitch, Speech, and Tone Language: Some Experiments and a Proposed Framework

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  2004

• Venue

  Music Perception

• Publication date

  2004-03-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1525/MP.2004.21.3.339
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