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- Music and language represent ubiquitous and complex cognitive systems. In evolutionary theories the idea of far-reaching similarities and a common evolutionary precursor of music and language has a long tradition. Many core characteristics of language, denoted as “design features,” are shared with music.
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This review presents a highly selective survey of connections between music and language. I begin by considering some fundamental differences between music and language and some nonspecific similarities that may arise out of more general characteristics of human cognition and communication.
Apr 26, 2012 · Three research papers focus on the relationship between tonal language expertise and musical pitch perception skills and on whether pitch-processing deficits might influence tonal language perception.
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Several studies have shown that both bilingualism and musical training and practice appear to protect people against the onset of dementia and other cognitive decline in later life. As Canadian psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Anne-Marie DePape pointed outin a 2009 article, the mechanisms responsible for these effects are rather poorly understood,...
Research has mostly concentrated on the benefits of musical knowledge for pronunciation and the perception of linguistic sounds. In a series of studies, Milovanov and her colleagues found that in Finnish-speaking children and adults, musical aptitude correlates significantlywith better pronunciation skills in English. This may be because neural res...
But speech is only one way that language is expressed. In a more recent study, American researcher Reyna Gordon and her collaboratorsfound that children’s perception of rhythm also has a significant influence on their use of different morphological and syntactic features, such as the use of verbs in the past tense. Earlier studies have compared bra...
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Oct 2, 2014 · The relationship between music and language is particularly strong in early infancy. The main focus of the present chapter is on the relationship between language and music, and evidence of overlapping neurophysiological, perceptual, and cognitive resources underlying this relationship.
A significant relationship between higher musical aptitude, better second language pronunciation skills, accurate chord discrimination ability, and more prominent sound-change-evoked brain ...
about the relationship between music and language. Studies range from general theories and models describing their possible common origins to specific experimental approaches
May 7, 2012 · This review considers evidence for a link between language and music at three levels of analysis: sound, structure, and meaning. These links not only inform our understanding of language and music, but also add to a more basic understanding of our processing of complex auditory stimuli, structure, meaning, and emotion.
