This is awesome. That's one step towards solving the mystery of the existence of this music universal.

So now we have to ask: why do *people* behave this way?

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I mean: why do people exemplify this phenomenon in ordinary language?

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Well, I'm still curious how much this does or doesn't mean about "universals". It could well be that the emotional content of music and speech is purely conventional, but our conventions are consistent across the two.

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I wonder if their Tigger dialogue has greater pitch variation than Eeyore dialogue, rather than their being specifically major/minor thirds.

I wonder if cultures in which maj/min 3rds don't have the happy/sad affective association might still read Tigger and Eeyore like this.

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