Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills

Research shows that musical expertise benefits second language (L2) phonological learning [1], however little is known on the potential effects of training musical melodic and rhythmic skills on language production skills. This study investigated the role of training musical features such as melody,...

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Authors: Zhang, Yuan, Baills, Florence, Prieto, Pilar
Format: book part
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Keyword:Music and language
Speech imitation skills
Musicality and language acquisition
Embodied music cognition
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spelling Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skillsZhang, YuanBaills, FlorencePrieto, PilarMusic and languageSpeech imitation skillsMusicality and language acquisitionEmbodied music cognitionResearch shows that musical expertise benefits second language (L2) phonological learning [1], however little is known on the potential effects of training musical melodic and rhythmic skills on language production skills. This study investigated the role of training musical features such as melody, rhythm, and accent with embodied activities [2] (e.g., without any spoken input) on imitation skills. We hypothesized that embodied musical learning would activate participants' melodic and rhythmic musical skills, which will transfer to their ability to imitate speech. Fifty Chinese adolescents participated in three 45-minute classroom training sessions. They were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the Embodied Music group followed rhythmic and melodic activities involving body movements; the Non-Embodied Music group followed traditional music classes. Before and after training, participants took part in a sentence-imitation task involving six unfamiliar languages. For each language, imitation skills were evaluated in terms of accentedness by three native speakers. Results showed a significantly higher improvement in the Embodied Music group. These findings demonstrate for the first time the beneficial effects of training students with embodied musical activities on speech imitation skills and add evidence to the relationship between musical rhythmic and melodic features and speech.This research is funded by the PGC2018-097007-B-l00 project awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), and Pla de Recerca de Catalunya: 2017 SGR_971, awarded by Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca.ISCA2022info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-147https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469491http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469491reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PGC2018-097007-B-I00Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-147Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody - Speech Prosody 2022 / S. Frota, M. Cruz and M. Vigário (eds.), 2022, p. 723-727(c) ISCA, 2022info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10459.1/4694912026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
title Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
spellingShingle Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
Zhang, Yuan
Music and language
Speech imitation skills
Musicality and language acquisition
Embodied music cognition
title_short Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
title_full Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
title_fullStr Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
title_full_unstemmed Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
title_sort Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Zhang, Yuan
Baills, Florence
Prieto, Pilar
author Zhang, Yuan
author_facet Zhang, Yuan
Baills, Florence
Prieto, Pilar
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Prieto, Pilar
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Music and language
Speech imitation skills
Musicality and language acquisition
Embodied music cognition
topic Music and language
Speech imitation skills
Musicality and language acquisition
Embodied music cognition
description Research shows that musical expertise benefits second language (L2) phonological learning [1], however little is known on the potential effects of training musical melodic and rhythmic skills on language production skills. This study investigated the role of training musical features such as melody, rhythm, and accent with embodied activities [2] (e.g., without any spoken input) on imitation skills. We hypothesized that embodied musical learning would activate participants' melodic and rhythmic musical skills, which will transfer to their ability to imitate speech. Fifty Chinese adolescents participated in three 45-minute classroom training sessions. They were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the Embodied Music group followed rhythmic and melodic activities involving body movements; the Non-Embodied Music group followed traditional music classes. Before and after training, participants took part in a sentence-imitation task involving six unfamiliar languages. For each language, imitation skills were evaluated in terms of accentedness by three native speakers. Results showed a significantly higher improvement in the Embodied Music group. These findings demonstrate for the first time the beneficial effects of training students with embodied musical activities on speech imitation skills and add evidence to the relationship between musical rhythmic and melodic features and speech.
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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody - Speech Prosody 2022 / S. Frota, M. Cruz and M. Vigário (eds.), 2022, p. 723-727
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