Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages

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  • dc.contributor.author Li, Peng
  • dc.contributor.author Zhang, Yuan
  • dc.contributor.author Baills, Florence
  • dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
  • dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-06T06:11:38Z
  • dc.date.available 2025-05-06T06:11:38Z
  • dc.date.issued 2023
  • dc.description.abstract The ability to imitate speech is linked to individual cognitive abilities such as working memory and the auditory processing of music. However, little research has focused on the role of specific components of musical perception aptitude in relation to an individual’s native language from a crosslinguistic perspective. This study explores the predictive role of four components of musical perception skills and working memory on phonetic language abilities for speakers of two typologically different languages, Catalan (an intonation language) and Chinese (a tone language). Sixty-one Catalan and 144 Chinese participants completed four subtests (accent, melody, pitch and rhythm) of the Profile of Music Perception Skills, a forward digit span task and a speech imitation task. The results showed that for both groups of participants, musical perception skills predicted speech imitation accuracy but working memory did not. Importantly, among the components of musical perception skills, accent was the only predictive factor for Chinese speakers, whereas melody was the only predictive factor for Catalan speakers. These findings suggest that speech imitation ability is predicted by musical perception skills rather than working memory and that the predictive role of specific musical components may depend on the phonological properties of the native language.en
  • dc.description.sponsorship This study is funded by ‘Multimodal Communication: The integration of prosody and gesture in human communication and in language learning’ (PID2021-123823NB-I00) awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and ‘Multimodal language learning: Prosodic and Gestural Integration in Pragmatic and Phonological Development’ (PGC2018-097007-B-l00), awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional. P.L. is supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme (223265). F.B. acknowledges a Margarita Salas grant funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU, Ministry of Universities and Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, through a call from Pompeu Fabra University.en
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  • dc.identifier.citation Li P, Zhang Y, Baills F, Prieto P. Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages. Lang cogn. 2023 Nov 7;16(3):647-65. DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.52
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.52
  • dc.identifier.issn 1866-9808
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70296
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
  • dc.relation.ispartof Language and Cognition. 2023 Nov 7;16(3):647-65
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/223265
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-097007-B-l00
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2021-123823NB-I00
  • dc.rights © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword Intonation languagesen
  • dc.subject.keyword Musical aptitudeen
  • dc.subject.keyword Speech imitationen
  • dc.subject.keyword Tone languagesen
  • dc.subject.keyword Working memoryen
  • dc.title Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: differences between speakers of tone and intonation languagesen
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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