Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...

Speakers of tonal languages such as Cantonese appear to have a genetic variant that makes it easier to hear lexical tones. But the genetic effect is only small. Having had music lessons is much ...

A new study has found that genes may actually contribute to learning the supposed "tonal languages", such as Chinese. Dan Dediu and Robert Ladd of Edinburgh University, UK, have exposed the first ...

All babies can grow up speaking any language, but now researchers have uncovered evidence that genes may in fact play a part in learning so-called “tonal languages”, such as Chinese.