SSS 2009-05-21
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(五)月
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?
Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note first. But there's a much better chance you could successfully name the notes if you are a fluent speaker of an East Asian tonal language, such as Vietnamese, Mandarin 1 or Cantonese. That's the finding of a study by U.C. San Diego and U.S.C. researchers presented May 21st at the Acoustical 2 Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. Two hundred three U.S.C music students listened to musical notes. The Asian musicians who spoke 3 a tone language fluently exhibited almost perfect perfect pitch, far outperforming Caucasian fluent in a non-tone language like English. And they also outdid other musicians of Asian ancestry 4 who did not speak a tonal language. So it would seem that perfect pitch is more nurture 5 than nature. By the way the notes are D, E & G, assuming that your MP3 player is in tune 6.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.
- Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
- Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
- This system can set up acoustical resonances. 这种系统能产生共鸣。
- The relevance of acoustical principles is by no means limited to sound and hearing. 声学原理并不仅仅适用于声音和听觉。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
- He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。