Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception.
Musical experience facilitates speech perception. French musicians, to whom stress is foreign, have been found to perceive English stress more accurately than French non-musicians. This study investigated whether this musical advantage also applies to native listeners. English musicians and non-musi...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 697 - 713 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2022
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