Young Children Pause on Phrase Boundaries in Self-Paced Music Listening: The Role of Harmonic Cues.
Proper segmentation of auditory streams is essential for understanding music. Many cues, including meter, melodic contour, and harmony, influence adults' perception of musical phrase boundaries. To date, no studies have examined young children's musical grouping in a production task. We used a music...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 842 - 857 |
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