Absolute pitch (AP) is a fairly rare and special phenomenon that has relevance for
musicology, psychology, genetics, and neuroscience. AP possessors are able to identify the …

Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been
vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience …

Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the
potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception …

Contrary to studies on speech learning of consonants and vowels, the issue of individual
variability is less well understood in the learning of lexical tones. Whereas existing studies …

Music impacting on speech processing is vividly evidenced in most reports involving
professional musicians, while the question of whether the facilitative effects of music are …

This study investigated the categorization of Mandarin lexical tones and music melodic
tones by listeners differing in linguistic and musical experience (English musicians, English …

This study adopts a cross-linguistic perspective and investigates how musical expertise
affects the perception of duration and pitch in language. Native speakers of Chinese (N= 44) …

Whether tone language experience facilitates non-native tone perception is an area of
research that previously yielded conflicting results, potentially because of the lack of …

Spoken word recognition involves a perceptual tradeoff between the reliance on the
incoming acoustic signal and knowledge about likely sound categories and their co …

Previous research has suggested a relationship between musical abilities and the
perception of speech prosody. However, effect sizes and significance differ across studies …