Abstract
Humaninfants' perception of tone sequences or melodies is reviewed the contextof related work with human adults and nonhuman species. For the part,infants use an adult-like pitch processing strategy that is global and ratherthan the local pitch strategy that is characteristic of the nonhuman species stud date. Thus they encode and retain the pitch configuration or contour of withlittle attention to the absolute pitches of individual notes. In the case structured melodies,specifically, melodies that are prototypical of Western music, in encodemore precise relations, notably the intervals or exact pitch relations be adjacentnotes. Finally, the functional significance of relational pitch inhuman infancy is consideredprocessingtweenfantsof wella melody,iedto relationalmostin
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