Perceiving speech rhythm in music: Listeners classify instrumental songs according to language of origin

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-409

  Hannon, Erin E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Music perception; Musical rhythm; Speech prosody; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 67349173613     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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