Foreign language pronunciation skills and musical aptitude: A study of Finnish adults with higher education

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-60

  Milovanov, Riia ^a,b   Pietilä, Päivi ^a   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b,c   Esquef, Paulo A A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Musical aptitude; Pronunciation skills; Seashore test

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449087727     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Anvari S.H., Trainor L.J., Woodside J., and Levy B.A. Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 83 (2002) 111-130
2. Besson M., and Schön D. Comparison between language and music. In: Zatorre R.J., and Peretz I. (Eds). The Biological Foundations of Music (2001), The New York Academy of Sciences, New York 232-258
3. Birdsong D. Interpreting age effects in second language acquisition. In: Kroll J.F., and Groot A.M.B. (Eds). Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches (2005), Oxford University Press, New York 109-127
4. Birdsong D. Age and second language acquisition and processing: a selective overview. Language Learning 56 1 (2006) 9-49
5. Bongaerts T., van Summeren C., Planken B., and Schils E. Age and ultimate attainment in the pronunciation of a foreign language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 19 4 (1997) 447-465
6. Council of Europe. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (2001), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
7. Crystal D. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (1985), T.J. Press Ltd., Great Britain
8. De Keyser R., and Larson-Hall J. What does the critical period really mean?. In: Kroll J.F., and de Groot A.M.B. (Eds). Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches (2005), Oxford University Press, New York 88-108
9. Dörnyei Z. The Psychology of the Language Learner (2005), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London
10. Flege J.E. The production and perception of foreign languages. In: Winitz H. (Ed). Human Communication And Its Disorders (1988), Norwood, NJ
11. Flege J.E., Munro M.J., and MacKay I.R.A. Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 97 5 (1995) 3125-3134
12. Forrest K., Weismer G., Milenkovic P., and Dougall R.N. Statistical analysis of word-initial voiceless obstruents: preliminary data. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84 1 (1998) 115-123
13. Jongman A., Wayland R., and Wong S. Acoustic characteristics of English fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108 3 (2000) 1252-1263
14. Larsen-Freeman D., and Long M. An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research (1992), Longman, New York
15. Lintunen P. Pronunciation and Phonemic Transcription: A Study of Advanced Finnish Learners of English (2004), University of Turku, Turku
16. Long M.H. Maturational constraints on language development. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 12 (1990) 251-285
17. Long M.H. Second language acquisition as a function of age: research findings and methodological issues. In: Hyltenstam K., and Viberg Å. (Eds). Progression and Regression in Language (1993), CUP, Cambridge
18. Marques C., Moreno S., Castro S.L., and Besson M. Musicians detect pitch violation in a foreign language better than nonmusicians: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (2007) 1453-1463
19. Milovanov R., Huotilainen M., Välimäki V., Esquef P.A.A., and Tervaniemi M. Musical aptitude and second language pronunciation skills in school-aged children: neural and behavioral evidence. Brain Research 1194 (2008) 81-89
20. Milovanov R., Huotilainen M., Esquef P.A.A., Välimäki V., Alku P., and Tervaniemi M. The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration determination in school-aged children. Neuroscience Letters 460 2 (2009) 161-165
21. Moreno S., Marques C., Santos A., Santos M., Castro S.L., and Besson M. Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity. Cerebral Cortex 19 (2009) 712-713
22. Morris-Wilson I. English Segmental Phonetics for Finns (2004), Oulun yliopisto, Finland
23. Munoz C. Symmetries and asymmetries of age effects in naturalistic and instructed L2 learning. Applied Linguistics 29 4 (2008) 578-596
24. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9 (1971) 97-113
25. Scovel T. A Time to Speak: A Psycholinguistic Inquiry into the Critical Period for Human Speech (1988), Newbury House, New York
26. Seashore C.E., Lewis D., and Saetveit J.G. Seashore Measures of Musical Talents Manual. (2nd edn.) (1960), Psychological Corporation, New York
27. Seashore C.E., Lewis D., and Saetveit J.G. Seashore Measures of Musical talents CD, Digitally Remastered Version by Esquef, P. (2003) (1960), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
28. Slevc L.R., and Miyake A. Individual differences in second language proficiency: does musical ability matter?. Psychological Science 17 (2006) 675-681
29. Tallal P., and Gaab N. Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development. Trends in Neuroscience 29 7 (2006) 382-390
30. Wiik K. Finnish and English Vowels (1965), University of Turku, Turku