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This is Scientific American 60-second science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?

Language can take many forms, spoken, written, even gesticulated, as with American Sign Language.

Regardless of the language form, the left hemisphere of the brain dominates the information processing.

But the right hemisphere plays a greater role in processing acoustics, pitch, and melodies,

which is why researchers were curious about how the brain processes whistled Turkish.

Yes, that's Turkish, but being whistled rather than spoken.

Before the advent of telephones, mountain communities separated by valleys modified the spoken language into sounds that can be heard up to a couple of kilometers away.

For instance,

means do you have fresh bread?

And

translates to who won the game.

One member of the research team said he first could not recognize the

whistles as Turkish, but was able to pick out words within a week. So what's going on in the

brains that hear and understand these sounds? When researchers played spoken Turkish syllables

through headphones, the subject's right ears did the most work. Again, the right ear links to

the brain's left hemisphere, the usual primary site for spoken

information processing. But when whistled Turkish syllables were played into the headphones,

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