"Emily" wrote in message
news:vCP_b.52882$4o.71701@attbi_s52...
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??

--
Emily
mom to Toby 5/1/02
#2 EDD 7/19/04

Good question, and my guess what they meant was the up and down intonations
(melodic intonations) of our voices during speech, rather than how high or
low our voice sounds to the fetus.

Did that make sense?

--
M~Elizabeth

To thine own self be true