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Unborn Children Hear "Melody" of Speech
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. -- M~Elizabeth To thine own self be true |
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Unborn Children Hear "Melody" of Speech
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 |
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Unborn Children Hear "Melody" of Speech
"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 |
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Unborn Children Hear "Melody" of Speech
melizabeth wrote:
"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? My understanding of how this works (and I'm a linguist, though not a phonetician) is that if you can hear one, you can hear the other. That is, if higher pitches aren't audible, then the baby would only hear you when you're talking lower, or the lower parts if you're using a big and variable pitch range. -- Emily mom to Toby 5/1/02 #2 EDD 7/19/04 , |
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Unborn Children Hear "Melody" of Speech
melizabeth wrote:
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. I'm guessing they meant melodic as opposed to percussive (e.g., consonants). Best wishes, Ericka |
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