while native Canadian adults without any exposure to Chinese failed to hear these tones as language, merely processing them as a melody in the right hemisphere, the Chinese-Canadian adoptees, just like native Chinese, processed them as language sounds in a phonological region of the left hemisphere called the “planum temporale.”

把中文的声调听成旋律到底是什么感觉好难想象啊！我直到一年多前都没意识到中文的声调其实就是音高的变化，因为我学声调的时候把它们称呼为第一声，第二声，第三声和第四声，但是外国人学的竟然是 high tone, rising tone, low tone 和 falling tone，简直 mind-blowing ​
但其实我从小就喜欢把旋律用声调表现出来，所以是这个反向的联系我一直没考虑过。