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Comment author: Douglas_Knight3 18 July 2008 01:52:57AM 1 point [-]

the tones in human voices change, depending on the emotional states of the speakers?

I've heard that isn't true in tonal languages. Is the meaning of the tones universal across atonal languages? I doubt it, for otherwise, how would tonal ones develop?