NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Mihye Choi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
One hypothesis to explain perceptual narrowing in speech perception is the distributional learning account. This account claims that both infants and adults are able to infer the number of phonemic categories through observations of frequency distributions of individual phones in their speech input (Maye, Werker, & Gerken, 2002). Although the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Native Language, Cues, Information Sources
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhang, Yuan; Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Though research has shown that rhythmic training is beneficial for phonological speech processing, little empirical work has been carried out to assess whether rhythmic training in the classroom can help to improve pronunciation in a second language. This study tests the potential benefits of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Teaching Methods, French, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kolinsky, Regine; Lidji, Pascale; Peretz, Isabelle; Besson, Mireille; Morais, Jose – Cognition, 2009
The aim of this study was to determine if two dimensions of song, the phonological part of lyrics and the melodic part of tunes, are processed in an independent or integrated way. In a series of five experiments, musically untrained participants classified bi-syllabic nonwords sung on two-tone melodic intervals. Their response had to be based on…
Descriptors: Intervals, Vowels, Phonology, Music
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bidelman, Gavin M.; Gandour, Jackson T.; Krishnan, Ananthanarayan – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Behavioral and neurophysiological transfer effects from music experience to language processing are well-established but it is currently unclear whether or not linguistic expertise (e.g., speaking a tone language) benefits music-related processing and its perception. Here, we compare brainstem responses of English-speaking musicians/non-musicians…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Music, Tone Languages, Musicians
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Herrera, Lucia; Lorenzo, Oswaldo; Defior, Sylvia; Fernandez-Smith, Gerard; Costa-Giomi, Eugenia – Psychology of Music, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a music training program on children's phonological awareness and naming speed in Spanish. Participants were preschool children whose first language was either Spanish (n = 45) or Tamazight ( n = 52), a Berber dialect spoken in Morocco's Rif area. The two-year pretest/posttest study…
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Music, Music Activities, Phonology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Peter, Beate; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a proposed speech disorder subtype that interferes with motor planning and/or programming, affecting prosody in many cases. Pilot data (Peter & Stoel-Gammon, 2005) were consistent with the notion that deficits in timing accuracy in speech and music-related tasks may be associated with CAS. This study…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Imitation, Task Analysis, Children