Perfect Pitch: Absolute Hearing

Perfect Pitch - The Language of Listening: How Your Mother Tongue Shapes Your Musical Ear

23 min · 2. maj 2026
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Host Lenny Vaughn explores how tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese may wire the brain for absolute pitch from infancy. Drawing on Berkeley research, he examines why East Asian music students show dramatically higher rates of perfect pitch through linguistic training where pitch determines meaning. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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