Patel Aniruddh D, Iversen John R, Rosenberg Jason C
The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2006 May;119(5 Pt 1):3034-47. doi: 10.1121/1.2179657.
For over half a century, musicologists and linguists have suggested that the prosody of a culture's native language is reflected in the rhythms and melodies of its instrumental music. Testing this idea requires quantitative methods for comparing musical and spoken rhythm and melody. This study applies such methods to the speech and music of England and France. The results reveal that music reflects patterns of durational contrast between successive vowels in spoken sentences, as well as patterns of pitch interval variability in speech. The methods presented here are suitable for studying speech-music relations in a broad range of cultures.
半个多世纪以来，音乐学家和语言学家一直认为，一种文化的母语韵律会体现在其器乐的节奏和旋律中。要验证这一观点，需要定量方法来比较音乐节奏与口语节奏以及旋律。本研究将此类方法应用于英国和法国的语音与音乐。结果表明，音乐反映了口语句子中连续元音之间的时长对比模式，以及语音中的音高间隔变化模式。本文介绍的方法适用于研究多种文化中的语音与音乐关系。
