Again, this is a right-handed centric thing but if you're right-handed, language on the left, math and music on the right.

重申一遍,这是以右利手为基础的研究结论,如果你是右利手,那么语言功能便定位于左半球,而数学运算与音乐则定位于右半球

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You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

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Music is a language and it is made up of a syntax, and syntax, you know, consists of phrases and the order in which those phrases occur.

音乐也是一种语言,由句法构成,而句法,你们知道的,就是乐句组合,以及这些乐句的组合顺序

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So doing music, if I'm sight reading, playing, it's a very complex thing, but most of the--most of this music and language processing happens in these-- the--as I mentioned--the left and right auditory cortex.

如果我想创作音乐,即兴创作,即兴表演,那就会很复杂了,但是大多数的语言和音乐处理,都在这部分发生,就是我之前提到的左右听觉皮层

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Now where is music and language processed?

那么哪里是音乐和语言的处理器官呢

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Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

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