Leonard Bernstein made the claim in his Harvard University lecture series that people across all cultures whine in minor thirds. So if that is true, then what if our entire array of speech patterns also fell within a tonic, sub-dominant, dominant harmonic function in order to express meaning? In this lecture, Pat Pattison theorizes that the melodies of human speech work exactly like the harmonic functions of western music's tonal system. So, what does this have to do with songwriting and how can it help you? Watch Pat Pattison's Harmonic Functions of Speech to find out!