Our ability to perceive and produce rhythmic patterns in the environment supports
fundamental human capacities ranging from music and language processing to the …

The beneficial effects of musical training are not limited to enhancement of musical skills, but
extend to language skills. Here, we review evidence that musical training can enhance …

A growing body of evidence has highlighted behavioral connections between musical
rhythm and linguistic syntax, suggesting that these abilities may be mediated by common …

The central topic of this volume is language competence across populations. The population
of interest here is children with specific language impairment (SLI), a condition …

The development of speech perception shows a dramatic transition between infancy and
adulthood. Between 6 and 12 months, infants' initial ability to discriminate all phonetic units …

Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish
2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers …

There is a growing literature demonstrating that speech rhythm sensitivity is related to
children's reading development, independent of phonological awareness. However, the …

Abstract Temporal accounts of Developmental Dyslexia (DD) postulate that a timing
impairment plays an important role in this learning disorder. However, DD has been …

Speech rhythm has long been claimed to be a useful bootstrapping cue in the very first steps
of language acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that newborn infants do …

Purpose This study evaluated the pathways between developmental language disorder
(DLD), psychosocial risk factors, and the development of emotional difficulties from ages 3 to …