Re:Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)
by artfulhippo on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:15PM
(#29386611)
I see. Could you say more about meta-meaning?
Re:Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)
by mnhn1 on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:44PM
(#29387788)
I'm using that to group all the things that are communicated through the musicality of the voice in addition to the words themselves. Like if a person is happy, upset, or surprised, in a way you can pick up from the tone of their voice.
Here's a small example, about how the minor third interval between two notes which is perceived as "sad" in Western music, is also present in English speech that sounds "sad" to the listener: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44642274_The_Minor_...
People who have congenital amusia, iirc, also tend to struggle with understanding tone languages. It seems true that if you aren't able to distinguish pitch well, you aren't good at encoding/decoding messages that are present through the medium of pitch differences.
I didn't mean to suggest above that this is a general thing for all humans. Like every other recreational stimulate-the-senses activity, some people don't actually care for it/aren't affected by it anyway.