TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceiving Prosody in Speech: Effects of Music Lessons
AU - Thompson, William Forde
AU - Schellenberg, E. Glenn
AU - Husain, Gabriela
PY - 2003/11
Y1 - 2003/11
N2 - In two experiments, musically trained and untrained adults were tested on their ability to match spoken utterances with their tonal analogues (tone sequences that retained the pitch and temporal patterns of the utterances). In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhanced ability to extract prosodic information from spoken phrases.
AB - In two experiments, musically trained and untrained adults were tested on their ability to match spoken utterances with their tonal analogues (tone sequences that retained the pitch and temporal patterns of the utterances). In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhanced ability to extract prosodic information from spoken phrases.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0348198904&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1196/annals.1284.067
DO - 10.1196/annals.1284.067
M3 - Article
C2 - 14681180
AN - SCOPUS:0348198904
SN - 0890-6564
VL - 999
SP - 530
EP - 532
JO - Annals of The Lyceum of Natural History of New York
JF - Annals of The Lyceum of Natural History of New York
IS - 1
ER -