TY  - JOUR
A1  - Roncaglia-Denissen, Maria Paula
A1  - Schmidt-Kassow, Maren
A1  - Heine, Angela
A1  - Vuust, Peter
A1  - Kotz, Sonja A.
T1  - Enhanced musical rhythmic perception in Turkish early and late learners of German
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - As language rhythm relies partly on general acoustic properties, such as intensity and duration, mastering two languages with distinct rhythmic properties (i.e., stress position) may enhance musical rhythm perception. We investigated whether second language (L2) competence affects musical rhythm aptitude in Turkish early (TELG) and late learners (TLLG) of German in comparison to German monolingual speakers (GMC). To account for inter-individual differences, we measured participants’ short-term and working memory capacity, melodic aptitude, and time they spent listening to music. Both L2 speaker groups perceived rhythmic variations significantly better than monolinguals. No differences were found between early and late learners’ performances. Our findings suggest that mastering two languages with different rhythmic properties enhances musical rhythm perception, providing further evidence of cognitive share between language and music.
KW  - speech rhythm
KW  - L2
KW  - Musical rhythm
KW  - rhythmic aptitude
KW  - Turkish
KW  - German
KW  - english
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31618
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-316188
SN  - 1664-1078
N1  - Copyright: © 2013 Roncaglia-Denissen, Schmidt-Kassow, Heine, Vuust and Kotz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 4
IS  - 645
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -