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Linguistic tone and the brain?

Can anyone point me to articles on the study of how tones found in languages related to the brain, especially in comparison with music?

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Do speakers of tone languages find stress elusive?

From my observations, speakers of Chinese languages find stress elusive. They can identify tones well, but find it hard to identify stressed syllables. What about speakers of Mende, Yoruba, Kera,...

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Any speakers of of an African tone language (e.g. Yoruba, Igbo, Mende) to help with providing some recordings please?

Inspired by something I read from Diana Deutsch, I'd like to see if the same word, articulated by African tone language speakers but separated by a period of time (say two weeks), will have the...

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