Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A background in music helps speakers learn a tonal language, such as Mandarin, a new University at Buffalo study suggests. People with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal ...

There’s a change in the atmosphere at Music in the Mountains. It’s palpable – if undecipherable. Throughout the festival, fans have randomly commented on an amorphous tonal shift. “The atmosphere is ...

Your mother tongue may modify your musical ability. Speaking a native language that requires tones appears to boost perception of melody, but at the cost of rhythm, researchers report April 26 in ...

In nature, an ecotone is a transitional space between one type of terrain and another—the place where the forest, say, opens to a field, often serving as home to an unusually wide range of species.

A background in music helps speakers learn a tonal language, such as Mandarin, a new UB study suggests. People with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal — are better at imitating pitch ...