tonal language

基本解释

And they also outdid other musicians of Asian ancestry who did not speak a tonal language.
使用聲調語言的亞洲學生顯示出完美的樂感，比使用諸如英語這種非聲調語言的印歐語系學生具有更高的識別力，而且他們也比那些同樣來自亞洲卻不使用聲調語言的學生做的更好。
Mandarin is a tonal language, where changes in pitch can deliver radically different meanings: “English can be sung fast and understood, but Chinese cannot,” says Zhang.
“英語可以快唱，竝且被人理解，但是漢語不行。” 張說道。
But there’s a much better chance you could successfully name the notes if you’re a fluent speaker of an East Asian tonal language, such as Vietnamese, Mandarin or Cantonese.
但如果你是漢藏語系中諸如越南語、漢語或粵語【粵語剪輯】這些聲調語言的熟練使用者，你也許有更多的可能成功識別出那些音符。