Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal: Behavioural Neurology

Volume number: 2015

ISSN: 0953-4180

eISSN: 1875-8584

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/606470

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
Language and music share many properties, with a particularly strong overlap for prosody. Prosodic cues are generally regarded as crucial for language acquisition. Previous research has indicated that children with SLI fail to make use of these cues. As processing of prosodic information involves similar skills to those required in music perception, we compared music perception skills (melodic and rhythmic-melodic perception and melody recognition) in a group of children with SLI (N = 29, five-year-olds) to two groups of controls, either of comparable age (N = 39, five-year-olds) or of age closer to the children with SLI in their language skills and about one year younger (N = 13, four-year-olds). Children with SLI performed inmost tasks below their age level, closer matching the performance level of younger controls with similar language skills. These data strengthen the view of a strong relation between language acquisition and music processing. This might open a perspective for the possible use of musical material in early diagnosis of SLI and of music in SLI therapy.

Harvard Citation style: Sallat, S. and Jentschke, S. (2015) Music Perception Influences Language Acquisition: Melodic and Rhythmic-Melodic Perception in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Behavioural Neurology, 2015, Article 606470. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/606470

APA Citation style: Sallat, S., & Jentschke, S. (2015). Music Perception Influences Language Acquisition: Melodic and Rhythmic-Melodic Perception in Children with Specific Language Impairment. Behavioural Neurology. 2015, Article 606470. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/606470