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When you hear Western music, you generally get the emotional tone. A major key is happy. A minor one? That’s sad.
當你聽到西方音樂時，通常你可以感受到它們的情感色彩。大調表示快樂。小調呢？是悲傷。
And spoken voices reflect this tonality. Here’s someone sounding positive: “I don’t know who made this cake but it is fantastic!” And down on his luck: “The papers finalizing the divorce came today.”
人們說話的腔調也具有這個特點。這是一個興奮的聲音：“我不知道誰做的這個蛋糕，但它太棒了！”這是一個低沉的聲音：“確定離婚的文件今天下來了。”
The researchers wanted to know: are these sounds international? So they turned to classical music from southern India. Here’s one that represents joy. Another displays grief and sadness. As for the spoken word, I bet you can tell the positive speaker from the negative one.
研究人員想知道，這種特點是否具有國際性？于是，他們把目光轉向了印度南部的古典音樂。這是一段代表喜悅的音樂（播放音樂），而這一段是代表痛苦和悲傷的音樂（播放音樂）。至于她們所說的話，我敢打賭，你可以分出哪個是積極的說話者（女人的說話聲），哪個是消沉的說話者（女人的說話聲）。
The researchers analyzed music and 20 native Tamil and American English speakers for a variety of sound and tone parameters. The authors say that certain emotional tones seem to be cross-cultural, and that music mimics voice. The research was published in the journal Public Library of Science One.
研究人員分析了音樂和20種當地泰米爾語以及美語的各種聲音和音色參數。研究人員稱，某些情感色彩似乎具有跨文化性，而且音樂的情感色彩和聲音的情感色彩具有相似性。這項研究結果發表在《科學公共圖書館》雜志上。
So we may often be able to understand the moods of a culture in music and even in speech – without understanding a word.
所以我們經常在甚至都不需要理解其中涵義的情況下，就可以領會到音樂和言論中所渲染的情緒。
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