melizabeth wrote:

I got this article from the February 17th edition of the ASHA leader
(American Speech-Language Hearing Association).

In a series of experiments on a pregnant ewe designed to record exactly what
sounds reach the fetal ear, University of Florida researcher have bolstered
previous findings suggesting that human fetuses likely hear mostly
low-frequency rather than high-frequency sounds. that means they hear
vowels rather than consonants and are more sensitive to the melodic parts of
speech than to pitch, said Ken Gerhardt, professor of communication sciences
and disorders and an associate dean of the graduate school, who led the
research reported in the November/December issues of the journal Audiology
and Neuro Otology. Visit www.napa.ufl.edu/ufnews for details about the
research.


What could "melodic parts of speech" be if not pitch??

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Emily
mom to Toby 5/1/02
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