My own guess (no more than that!) is that a language with no phonemes unknown to the listeners’ L1 and CV phonotactics will be ranked as more beautiful than others (The story of Japanese speakers finding Polynesian languages pleasant to the ear suggests this). Having recently spent some...
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Jessica Erret has foundthat spectral imbalance in the workplace significantly reduces mental performance. This means that a predominantly louder band of, say, rumbly low-pitch frequencies could cause a drop in concentration. This, however, is not exclusive to low-pitch frequencies; it holds true ...