What Is “Music” in Music-to-Language Transfer? Musical Ability But Not Musicianship Supports Cantonese Listeners’ English Stress Perception.

Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception. Method: The sample contained 124 participants, evenly split into Cantonese musician, Cantonese nonmusician, English musician,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 11; pp. 4047 - 4060
Autor principal: Choi, William
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Nov2022
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        Analysis of variance
        Cross-sectional method
        Task performance
        Ability
        Psychosocial factors
        Attention
        Music
        Emotions
        Performing arts
        Speech perception
        Research
        English language
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Musical pitch
        Auditory perception
        Speech evaluation
        Accuracy
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          Analysis of variance
          Cross-sectional method
          Task performance
          Ability
          Psychosocial factors
          Attention
          Music
          Emotions
          Performing arts
          Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers
          Independent actors, comedians and performers
          Speech perception
          Research
          English language
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Musical pitch
          Auditory perception
          Speech evaluation
          Accuracy
          Entertainers
          Research funding
          Musical perception
          Statistical correlation
      ab: Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception. Method: The sample contained 124 participants, evenly split into Cantonese musician, Cantonese nonmusician, English musician, and English nonmusician groups. They completed the English stress discrimination task, English stress sequence recall task, Musical Ear Test, and nonverbal intelligence task. Following the musicianship-based analysis, 44 Cantonese and English listeners were reassigned to four groups based on their musical ability—Cantonese high musical ability, Cantonese low musical ability, English high musical ability, and English low musical ability groups. Results: Musicianship-based analysis on English stress perception revealed a significant interaction between musicianship and language. Specifically, musicians outperformed nonmusicians only among the English but not the Cantonese listeners. By contrast, ability-based analysis showed significant main effects of musical ability and language. For both Cantonese and English listeners, those with a high musical ability outperformed those with a low musical ability. Regardless of musical ability, Cantonese listeners outperformed English listeners. Correlational analyses yielded consistent findings. Conclusions: This study has found cross-sectional evidence that musical ability, but not musicianship, facilitates Cantonese English as a second language (ESL) listeners’ English stress perception. From a theoretical perspective, the current findings motivate two potential additions to the OPERA (Overlap, Precision, Emotion, Repetition, and Attention) hypothesis for music-to-language transfer—unsaturation and utilization. Practically, the findings cast doubt on the application of nonperceptual based instrumental music training to enhance Cantonese ESL learners’ perceptual learning of English stress.
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