In the immortal words of Socrates, "...I drank what?"

So, I was watching House, and searching for random stuff from the show on wikipedia, and I found :

Linguistics

Absolute pitch is more common among speakers of tonal languages such as most dialects of Chinese or Vietnamese, which depend heavily on pitch for lexical meaning.[12] [13] Speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages have been reported to speak a word in the same absolute pitch (within a quarter-tone) on different days; it has therefore been suggested that absolute pitch may be acquired by infants when they learn to speak in a tonal language[14] (and possibly also by infants when they learn to speak in a pitch stress language). However, the brains of tonal-language speakers do not naturally process musical sound as language;[15] perhaps such individuals may be more likely to acquire absolute pitch for musical tones when they later receive musical training.

It is possible that level-tone languages which are found in Africa—such as Yoruba,[16] with three pitch levels, and Mambila,[17] with four—may be better suited to study the role of absolute pitch in speech than the contour-tone languages of East Asia.

Further, speakers of European languages have been found to make use of an absolute, though subconscious, pitch memory when speaking.[18]

under the entry for absolute pitch. SO cool. I kind of wonder what they mean by "European" (Indo-European, do you mean? I find this odd) languages, but the idea in general makes sense and I think it rocks. That is all :)