Exploring individual differences in musical rhythm and grammar skills in school-aged children with typically developing language.

ABSTRACT: A growing number of studies have shown a connection between rhythmic processing and language skill. It has been proposed that domain-general rhythm abilities might help children to tap into the rhythm of speech (prosody), cueing them to prosodic markers of grammatical (syntactic) information during language acquisition, thus underlying the observed correlations between rhythm and language. Working memory processes common to task demands for musical rhythm discrimination and spoken language paradigms are another possible source of individual variance observed in musical rhythm and language abilities. To investigate the nature of the relationship between musical rhythm and expressive grammar skills, we adopted an individual differences approach in N = 132 elementary school-aged children ages

SUBMITTER: Nitin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905575 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature