Perspectives on the rhythm-grammar link and its implications for typical and atypical language development

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1337, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-25

  Gordon, Reyna L ^a,b   Jacobs, Magdalene S ^a   Schuele, C Melanie ^a   Mcauley, J Devin ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Music; Prosody; Rhythm; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FOLLOW UP; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; RHYTHM; SPEECH; VOICE ONSET TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH;

EID: 84924546520     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12683     Document Type: Article

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