Figure 2.

Fundamental frequency (F0) contours of (A) the spoken sentence “She forgot her book” (with the intonation pattern of a question (?) and a statement (.), ranging typically more than 12 semitones), and (B) of the song “Happy Birthday” (with most pitch variations ranging between 0 and 2 semitones) [Reprinted from Trends Cogn. Sci, 7, Peretz, I., and Hyde, K. L., What is specific to music processing? Insights from congenital amusia. 362–367, Figure 2, copyright (2003), with permission from Elsevier].