Subject: absolute pitch, tone language and genetics P.S. From: Diana Deutsch <ddeutsch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:51:08 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--Apple-Mail-4--343528630 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Dear all, Sorry I forgot to give the direct access to the articles I just referred to - here it is: Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., Marvin, E., & Xu H-S. Absolute pitch among American and Chinese conservatory students: Prevalence differences, and evidence for a speech-related critical period. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006, 119, 719-722. [PDF Document] Deutsch, D. The enigma of absolute pitch. Acoustics Today, 2006, 2, 11-19. [PDF Document] Henthorn, T. & Deutsch, D., Ethnicity versus Early Environment: Comment on 'Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment' by Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky, Nina Kohn, and Elizabeth West Marvin (2000). American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 143A:102-103, 2007. [PDF Document] [Web Link] Cheers, Diana Deutsch --Apple-Mail-4--343528630 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px = 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">Dear = all,</FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">Sorry I forgot to give the = direct access to the articles I just referred to - here it = is:</FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., = Marvin, E., & Xu H-S. Absolute pitch among American and Chinese = conservatory students: Prevalence differences, and evidence for a = speech-related critical period. </FONT><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial"><I>Journal of the Acoustical Society of = America</I></FONT><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">, = 2006, 119, 719-722. [</FONT><A = href=3D"http://philomel.com/pdf/JASA-2006_119_719-722.pdf"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span"= color=3D"#0000F0">PDF Document</FONT></FONT></A><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">]</FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial">Deutsch, D. The enigma of absolute pitch. </FONT><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"><I>Acoustics = Today</I></FONT><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">, 2006, = 2, 11-19.=A0[</FONT><A = href=3D"http://philomel.com/pdf/Acoustics_Today_2006.pdf"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span"= color=3D"#55188C">PDF Document</FONT></FONT></A><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">]</FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial">Henthorn, T. & Deutsch, D., Ethnicity versus Early = Environment: Comment on 'Early childhood music education and = predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment' = by Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky, Nina Kohn, and Elizabeth West = Marvin (2000). </FONT><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial"><I>American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, = </I></FONT><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">143A:102-103, = 2007. [</FONT><A href=3D"http://philomel.com/pdf/AJMG_2007.pdf"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span"= color=3D"#55188C">PDF Document</FONT></FONT></A><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">] [</FONT><A = href=3D"http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.31596"><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span"= color=3D"#55188C">Web Link</FONT></FONT></A><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">]</FONT><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial"></FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial">Cheers,</FONT></P><P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px = 0.0px"><FONT class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial">Diana = Deutsch</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-4--343528630--