Pitch is a fundamental attribute of sound, which has led to extensive research on pitch processing, categorization, and memory with the goal of elucidating the complex workings of the auditory system. The phenomenon of absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify or produce a specified pitch without external reference, provides a unique opportunity to study the perception and neural coding of p...

Intrinsic Pitch differences (perceived pitch differences between high vs. low vowels) were found for Germanic languages. Our previous results gave evidence for a strong cross-linguistic difference when examining non-Germanic languages. We therefore designed a cross-linguistic vowel pitch discrimination experiment to examine the existence of intrinsic pitch in non-Germanic languages in compariso...