No Heightened Musical Pitch Weighting For Tone Language Speakers in Early Childhood

IF 1.3 2区 心理学 0 MUSIC
Sarah C. Creel, Reina Mizrahi, Alicia G. Escobedo, Li Zhao, Gail D. Heyman
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Numerous studies suggest that speakers of some tone languages show advantages in musical pitch processing compared to non-tone language speakers. A recent study in adults (Jasmin et al., 2021) suggests that in addition to heightened pitch sensitivity, tone language speakers weight pitch information more strongly than other auditory cues (amplitude, duration) in both linguistic and nonlinguistic settings compared to non-tone language speakers. The current study asks whether pitch upweighting is evident in early childhood. To test this, two groups of 3- to 5-year-old children—tone-language speakers (n = 48), a group previously shown to have a perceptual advantage in musical pitch tasks (Creel et al., 2018), and non-tone-language speakers (n = 48)—took part in a musical “word learning” task. Children associated two cartoon characters with two brief musical phrases differing in both musical instrument and contour. If tone language speakers weight pitch more strongly, cue conflict trials should show stronger pitch responding than for non-tone speakers. In contrast to both adult speakers’ stronger pitch weighting and child and adult pitch perception advantages, tone-language-speaking children did not show greater weighting of pitch information than non-tone-language speaking children. This suggests a slow developmental course for pitch reweighting, contrasting with apparent early emergence of pitch sensitivity.
儿童早期音调语言使用者的音高权重不增加
大量研究表明,一些声调语言的使用者在音高处理方面比非声调语言的使用者有优势。最近一项针对成年人的研究(Jasmin et al., 2021)表明,与非声调语言者相比,声调语言者在语言和非语言环境中比其他听觉线索(振幅、持续时间)更重视音调信息。目前的研究询问音调升高在儿童早期是否明显。为了验证这一点,两组3至5岁的儿童——声调语言者(n = 48),一组先前被证明在音乐音高任务中具有感知优势(Creel et al., 2018),以及非声调语言者(n = 48)——参加了音乐“单词学习”任务。孩子们将两个卡通人物与两个乐器和轮廓不同的简短乐句联系在一起。如果使用声调语言的人更重视音高,线索冲突试验应该显示出比非声调语言的人更强的音高反应。与成人说话者更强的音高权重和儿童和成人的音高感知优势相比,说声调语言的儿童的音高信息权重并不比不说声调语言的儿童大。这表明,与明显早期出现的音高敏感性相比,音高重加权的发育过程较慢。
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Music Perception
Music Perception Multiple-
CiteScore
3.70
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4.30%
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期刊介绍: Music Perception charts the ongoing scholarly discussion and study of musical phenomena. Publishing original empirical and theoretical papers, methodological articles and critical reviews from renowned scientists and musicians, Music Perception is a repository of insightful research. The broad range of disciplines covered in the journal includes: •Psychology •Psychophysics •Linguistics •Neurology •Neurophysiology •Artificial intelligence •Computer technology •Physical and architectural acoustics •Music theory
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