CNN曾將「先天音感」(Tonal talent)譽為香港十大無敵優點之首,原來早有研究發現,用廣東話嘅小朋友音感比普通話嘅更強:「Cantonese-speaking children had more advanced tone awareness than Mandarin-speaking children. This was likely because Cantonese has a more complicated tone system than Mandarin.」
參考: Chen, X., Anderson, R., Li, W., Hao, M., Wu, X., & Shu, H. (2004). Phonological Awareness of Bilingual and Monolingual Chinese Children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(1), 142-151.