Language and music: sound, structure, and meaning

Slevc, L. Robert

doi:10.1002/wcs.1186

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“…Previous review articles have concentrated on the effects of musical experience on auditory and speech processing skills (Besson, Chobert, & Marie, 2011;Kraus & Chandrasekaran, 2010; or on the general link between music and language (Asaridou & McQueen, 2013;Slevc, 2012). One recent review did examine the music -L1 and L2 relationship with an emphasis on brain processes .…”

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“…Most importantly, the research on the music-L2 link has been inclined towards phonology. Future studies should aim at examining other shared aspects between music and language; namely, structure and meaning (Slevc, 2012).…”

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“…Research suggests that two shared cognitive processes may underlie linguistic and musical syntax: working memory or executive functioning, and implicit learning (i.e., the ability to uncover an abstract structure from noisy input; Moreno et al, 2011;Francois & Schön, 2011). Although there is on-going research on the syntactic links between music and language (Slevc, 2012), no studies to date have been conducted to examine how music through…”

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The Potential Role of Music in Second Language Learning: A Review Article

Zeromskaite¹

2014

Journal of European Psychology Students

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The effects of musical activities on non-musical domains have recently sparked much research. Whereas the benefits of music for native language abilities are well established, the effect on second language (L2) is not yet fully explored. This review discusses articles suggesting the transfer effect of music on L2 phonological and reading skills. Through the analysis of research literature, it examines; (1) the extent of transfer to specific L2 skills, the nature of necessary music training, the effect of native language on musicality and L2, and the role of working memory in the transfer effect. While the discussed papers provide promising insights into the music-L2 relationship, due to the little research done in this area it is difficult to generalize the results to overall L2 learning.

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The Potential Role of Music in Second Language Learning: A Review Article

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2014

Journal of European Psychology Students

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“…Further evidence was provided by Tervaniemi and collaborators [23,27]. They investigated the relationship between musical aptitude and L2 phonemic discrimination and pronunciation skills in two studies with children and with adults.…”

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Musical Expertise and Second Language Learning

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Besson

2013

Brain Sciences

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Increasing evidence suggests that musical expertise influences brain organization and brain functions. Moreover, results at the behavioral and neurophysiological levels reveal that musical expertise positively influences several aspects of speech processing, from auditory perception to speech production. In this review, we focus on the main results of the literature that led to the idea that musical expertise may benefit second language acquisition. We discuss several interpretations that may account for the influence of musical expertise on speech processing in native and foreign languages, and we propose new directions for future research.

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“…The existence (or nonexistence) of a relationship between musical and linguistic structure (syntax) has received increasing interest over the past several years (for reviews, see Patel, 2008;Slevc, 2012;Tillmann, 2012), partially because this issue speaks to the broad question of modularity: do the complex cognitive systems supporting music and language rely on separable, modular processes (Peretz & Coltheart, 2003), or does syntactic processing in music and language rely, at least in part, on a common system (Patel, 2003)?…”

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Processing structure in language and music: a case for shared reliance on cognitive control

Slevc

Okada

2014

Psychon Bull Rev

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The relationship between structural processing in music and language has received increasing interest in the last several years, spurred by the influential Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis (SSIRH;Patel, 2003). According to this resource-sharing framework, music and language rely on separable syntactic representations but recruit shared cognitive resources to integrate these representations into evolving structures. The SSIRH is supported by findings of interactions between structural manipulations in music and language. However, other recent evidence suggests that such interactions can also arise with non-structural manipulations, and some recent neuroimaging studies report largely non-overlapping neural regions involved in processing musical and linguistic structure. These conflicting results raise the question of exactly what shared (and distinct) resources underlie musical and linguistic structural processing. This paper suggests that one shared resource is prefrontal cortical mechanisms of cognitive control, which are recruited to detect and resolve conflict that occurs when expectations are violated and interpretations must be revised. By this account, musical processing involves not just the incremental processing and integration of musical elements as they occur, but also the incremental generation of musical predictions and expectations, which must sometimes be overridden and revised in light of evolving musical input.

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Language and music: sound, structure, and meaning

Cited by 48 publications

References 111 publications

The Potential Role of Music in Second Language Learning: A Review Article

The Potential Role of Music in Second Language Learning: A Review Article

Musical Expertise and Second Language Learning

Processing structure in language and music: a case for shared reliance on cognitive control

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