Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Roncaglia-Denissen, M. Paula; Schmidt-Kassow, Maren; Heine, Angela; Vuust, Peter; Kotz, Sonja A.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00645

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“…Effects are small, but they are particularly impressive given that scores on MET subtests are highly correlated. Results also replicate those of W allentin et al (2010), who showed significant effects o f musical experience on MET scores, as well as those o f Marie et al (2012) and Roncaglia-Denissen et al (2013), who showed stronger links be tween linguistic experience and rhythm perception than between linguistic experience and pitch/melody perception.…”

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Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception, but not with melody perception.

Bhatara¹,

Yeung²,

Nazzi³

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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There has been increasing interest in links between language and music. Here, we investigate the relation between foreign language learning and music perception. We administered tests measuring melody and rhythm perception as well as a questionnaire on musical and foreign language experience to 147 monolingual French speakers. As expected, we found that musicians had better melody and rhythm perception than nonmusicians and that, among musicians, there was a positive correlation between the total number of years of music training and test scores. Crucially, we also found a positive correlation between the total number of years learning foreign languages and rhythm perception, but we found no such relation with melody perception. Moreover, the degree to which participants were better at rhythm than melody perception was also related to foreign language experience. Results suggest that both music training and learning foreign languages (primarily English, Spanish, and German in our sample) are related to French speakers' perception of rhythm, but not to their perception of melody. These results are discussed with respect to the rhythmic properties of French and suggest a common perceptual basis for rhythm in language and music.

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Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception, but not with melody perception.

Bhatara¹,

Yeung²,

Nazzi³

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…In contrast, melodic perception would not have overlapped as strongly with the rhythmic grouping task, resulting in a weaker association between the two. This result is also in line with those of previous studies: There is evidence that speech rhythm experience and musical rhythm discrimination abilities are linked (Roncaglia-Denissen et al, 2016;Roncaglia-Denissen et al, 2013a), and experience with lexical tone has been linked with receptive skills for musical melody (Bidelman et al, 2013;Deutsch et al, 2006;Wong et al, 2012).…”

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Effects of Musicality on the Perception of Rhythmic Structure in Speech

Boll-Avetisyan

Bhatara

Höhle

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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Language and music share many rhythmic properties, such as variations in intensity and duration leading to repeating patterns. Perception of rhythmic properties may rely on cognitive networks that are shared between the two domains. If so, then variability in speech rhythm perception may relate to individual differences in musicality. To examine this possibility, the present study focuses on rhythmic grouping, which is assumed to be guided by a domain-general principle, the Iambic/Trochaic law, stating that sounds alternating in intensity are grouped as strong-weak, and sounds alternating in duration are grouped as weak-strong. German listeners completed a grouping task: They heard streams of syllables alternating in intensity, duration, or neither, and had to indicate whether they perceived a strong-weak or weak-strong pattern. Moreover, their music perception abilities were measured, and they filled out a questionnaire reporting their productive musical experience. Results showed that better musical rhythm perception ability was associated with more consistent rhythmic grouping of speech, while melody perception ability and productive musical experience were not. This suggests shared cognitive procedures in the perception of rhythm in music and speech. Also, the results highlight the relevance of considering individual differences in musicality when aiming to explain variability in prosody perception.

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“…A few studies have addressed crosscultural differences in listening preferences (Soley & Hannon, 2010) and perceptual tasks (Hannon, Soley, & Ullal, 2012; Roncaglia-Denissen, Schmidt-Kassow, Heine, Vuust, & Kotz, 2013), showing that familiarity and enculturation governs listeners' rhythmic and metrical frameworks. However, whether syncopations have similar or different perceptual effects and whether meter relies on similar or different mechanisms within other musical styles is unexplored.…”

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Effects of Polyphonic Context, Instrumentation, and Metrical Location on Syncopation in Music

Witek

Clarke

Kringelbach³

et al. 2014

Music Perception

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IN MUSIC, THE RHYTHMS OF DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTSare often syncopated against each other to create tension. Existing perceptual theories of syncopation cannot adequately model such kinds of syncopation since they assume monophony. This study investigates the effects of polyphonic context, instrumentation and metrical location on the salience of syncopations. Musicians and nonmusicians were asked to tap along to rhythmic patterns of a drum kit and rate their stability; in these patterns, syncopations occurred among different numbers of streams, with different instrumentation and at different metrical locations. The results revealed that the stability of syncopations depends on all these factors and music training, in variously interacting ways. It is proposed that listeners' experiences of syncopations are shaped by polyphonic and instrumental configuration, metrical structure, and individual music training, and a number of possible mechanisms are considered, including the rhythms' acoustic properties, ecological associations, statistical learning, and timbral differentiation.

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Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German

Cited by 15 publications

References 87 publications

Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception, but not with melody perception.

Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception, but not with melody perception.

Effects of Musicality on the Perception of Rhythmic Structure in Speech

Effects of Polyphonic Context, Instrumentation, and Metrical Location on Syncopation in Music

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