Temporal cues are important for discerning word boundaries and syllable segments in
speech; their perception facilitates language acquisition and development. Beat …

The relationship between musical and linguistic skills has received particular attention in
infants and school-aged children. However, very little is known about pre-schoolers. This …

A small number of studies show that music training is associated with improvements in
reading or in its component skills. A central question underlying this present research is …

Spoken language is governed by rhythm. Linguistic rhythm is hierarchical and the rhythmic
hierarchy partially mimics the prosodic as well as the morpho-syntactic hierarchy of spoken …

Listeners may favour particular rhythms because of their degree of conformity to culture-
specific expectations or because of perceptual constraints that are apparent early in …

Humans have a unique ability to coordinate their motor movements to an external auditory
stimulus, as in music-induced foot tapping or dancing. This behavior currently engages the …

Moving in synchrony to the beat is a fundamental component of musicality. Here we
conducted a genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variants associated …

There is growing evidence that motor and speech disorders co-occur during development. In
the present study, we investigated whether stuttering, a developmental speech disorder, is …

Developmental dyslexia is associated with rhythmic difficulties, including impaired
perception of beat patterns in music and prosodic stress patterns in speech. Spoken …

The natural rhythms of speech help a listener follow what is being said, especially in noisy
conditions. There is increasing evidence for links between rhythm abilities and language …