Ses, Dil Ve Müzik
Sound, Language And Music

Summary/Abstract: Language and music are two peculiar humanly faculties. That the speech organ of human possesses a double-function as to produce both speech and musical sounds brings into mind that language and music are of the same origin. The main entity of both domains is sound. While music system sets discrete sounds in number and frequency, speech sounds are not frequency-based, one contrasting with the other according to the way of articulation in the speech organ. In the early childhood, similarities between language and music are at the highest level. As the reference of music is not clear, the meaning it conveys is controversial. Language and music are two different systems in the brain, however they are localized and processed almost in the same brain areas. Both involve combinations of smaller units into larger ones so their structure is hierarchical. Both language texts and music pieces constitute a gestalt. Musical pieces have encoding and retrieval advantages over language texts.

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