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alkyontoday at 9:49 AM1 replyview on HN

The same is true for music, otherwise canons and polyphony wouldn't work.


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tgvtoday at 11:37 AM

That's not a good argument. First, music is not speech. It doesn't require linguistic processing. Second, you can hear chords instead of individual voices, so polyphony can be perceived as shifting harmony, and it usually is.