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Episode: 0122 – How Different Languages Have Different Pitches
Description: 0122 – How Different Languages Have Different Pitches VOICE BOXLanguage experts[1] say that our speech is made up of a huge number of frequencies – base tones and overtones. It’s claimed that every language has a different range, for example British English moves between 2,000 and 12,000 Hz and French much less so between 125 and to 2,000 Hz and Russian between a wide 125 to 12,000 Hz.  It’s thought that a new-born baby can recognise the entire range of human speech sounds, but by around eight months it starts to narrow that range to its native lang...