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Bethann Letchworth
A commonly cited number is that approximately one in 10,000, or .01% of people, are thought to have perfect pitch. However, perfect pitch may actually be considerably more common: One recent review suggested that 4% of music students have the ability, and people with perfect pitch can be found in the general population, if you know how to look for them, according to Nusbaum, a leading expert on the science of auditory learning.
Nusbaum believes that whether a person has or can acquire perfect pitch may be a combination of their musical training and their general capacity for auditory working memory and perceptual attention. For example, while some people who were experimentally trained to memorize notes over an eight-week period ultimately achieved the same level of accuracy as those who naturally had perfect pitch, others did not.
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A monotone speech might put an English-speaking audience to sleep, but to a Chinese crowd, it would be completely incomprehensible. This is because Chinese-speakers--along with half of the world--use pitch to convey words' meanings. For example, in the Chinese dialect of Mandarin, the word "ma" when spoken in a high pitch means mother, while "ma" in a lower tone means hemp. And because children speaking these languages learn to associate words with pitches, they may be up to nine times more likely to develop a rare musical ability known as absolute pitch, according a new study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 116, No. 4). Popularly known as perfect pitch, absolute pitch is the ability to identify the letter-name of a sounded note--something only one in 10,000 Americans can do.
However, the study, coupled with research on infant pitch perception, suggests that absolute pitch--instead of being a rare, nearly magical ability--may be tied to early language development. And early exposure to pitches and their labels could make absolute pitch accessible to nearly anyone, says study author Diana Deutsch, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of California, San Diego.
Though experts disagree on the potential benefits of perfect pitch, Deutsch believes it could help people learn a tone language like Chinese later in life, as those with perfect pitch already can connect tones with words. Those with perfect pitch may hold advantages in musical tasks--such as singing in tune or composing music--as well, Deutsch notes.
Others, though, view perfect pitch as less important. "Perfect pitch is interesting, but not having it says nothing about whether you are a good musician or not," says Andrea R. Halpern, PhD, a psychology professor at Pennsylvania's Bucknell University who studies pitch perception.
However, those parents who want to hedge their bets may be able to increase their children's chances of gaining the skill, Deutsch says. Early experience playing on a piano with labeled keys or listening to adults match tones with words might allow any child younger than six to develop perfect pitch, she says.
New research on infant pitch recognition lends support to Deutsch's hypothesis. One such study, published in Developmental Psychology (Vol. 37, No. 1), finds that 8-month-olds recognize and remember absolute pitch, while English-speaking adults attend only to notes' relationship to each other. This finding suggests that at some point babies stop noticing absolute pitches because, at least for English-speakers, they offer little useful information, says study author Jenny Saffran, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Saffran and her colleagues reached this conclusion by playing a random sequence of notes for 20 8-month-olds. Immediately afterward, half of the babies listened to a set of notes taken from the previously heard stream. The other group of infants listened to a set of notes that were the same tune as the original note stream, just transposed to a different key. That is, the notes' relationship to each other did not change, but their absolute pitches did.
Babies pay more attention to novel sounds than ones they've recently heard, Saffran says. Therefore, the study suggests that infants recall the absolute pitch of notes and notice when they are transposed, she says.
In the English language, relative pitch plays a much more important role than absolute pitch, she says. A rising tone at the end of a sentence, for example, can turn a statement into a question. And that may be why babies exposed to English may quickly learn to ignore absolute pitch and instead focus on pitches' relationships, says Saffran.
Mandarin speakers, however, must pay attention to absolute pitch to pin down the meanings of individual words, says Deutsch. And early practice linking words to pitches may give tone-language speakers an edge on learning absolute pitch, she notes.
Also, both American and Chinese students who began their musical training before age 6 were more likely to develop the ability to name tones. This suggests that like a language's vowel sounds, pitch naming is learned during a critical developmental period, Deutsch notes.
However, pitch memory is only half of what goes into absolute pitch, says Gail Mauner, PhD, a professor of psychology and linguistics at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. The other half of the equation involves linking those notes to labels associated with frequencies, she says. (See sidebar.)
"Absolute pitch is maybe not what we are talking about here," says Mauner. "Saffran's infants are not labeling pitches; they are discriminating between pitches they have heard before and those they have not--which is certainly a prerequisite to developing absolute pitch."
English-speaking parents who would like to give their children the edge that Chinese-speaking children have in learning absolute pitch should let their infants practice making the connection between words and notes, Deutsch suggests. This could be done, for example, by singing note names along with notes, or simply giving a child a labeled keyboard to bang on, she says.
Though experts debate the advantages absolute pitch brings, it's possible that people with absolute pitch find it easier to learn tone languages as adults, says Deutsch. Moreover, historical records suggest that musical giants such as J.S. Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven had the ability--so it can't hurt, she notes.
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