New evidence of a rhythmic priming effect that enhances grammaticality judgments in children.

ABSTRACT: Musical rhythm and the grammatical structure of language share a surprising number of characteristics that may be intrinsically related in child development. The current study aimed to understand the potential influence of musical rhythmic priming on subsequent spoken grammar task performance in children with typical development who were native speakers of English. Participants (ages 5-8 years) listened to rhythmically regular and irregular musical sequences (within-participants design) followed by blocks of grammatically correct and incorrect sentences upon which they were asked to perform a grammaticality judgment task. Rhythmically regular musical sequences improved performance in grammaticality judgment compared with rhythmically irregular musical sequences. No such effect of rhythmic

SUBMITTER: Chern A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5986615 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature