Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? The study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them. 25 randomly selected subjects then went through an aural training in music for two weeks before all the subjects were retested in their aural-perceptive abilities in the Finnish language by means of a similar test containing different test items. The hypothesised positive effect of the musical intervention could be partially proved by a statistically significant mean enhancement in the final scores achieved by the trained group compared to an insignificant enhancement achieved by the control group.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783631613535
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-631-61353-5
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.11.2010
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2010
- Serie: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 294 g
- Seiten: 222
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt