Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Objective: Music and speech are complex signals containing regularities in how they unfold
in time. Similarities between music and speech/language in terms of their auditory features …

Children with specific language impairments (SLIs) show impaired perception and
production of language, and also show impairments in perceiving auditory cues to rhythm …

This study considered a relation between rhythm perception skills and individual differences
in phonological awareness and grammar abilities, which are two language skills crucial for …

Rhythm organizes events in time and plays a major role in music, but also in the phonology
and prosody of a language. Interestingly, children with developmental dyslexia—a learning …

Durational patterns provide cues to linguistic structure, thus so variations in rhythm skills
may have consequences for language development. Understanding individual differences …

Rhythm and metrical regularities are fundamental properties of music and poetry-and all of
those are used in the interaction between infants and their parents. Music and rhythm …

The ability to synchronize movement to a steady beat is a fundamental skill underlying
musical performance and has been studied for decades as a model of sensorimotor …

Children with developmental language disorders have been shown to be also impaired in
rhythm and meter perception. Temporal processing and its link to language processing can …

Musical training has been shown to positively influence linguistic abilities. To follow the
developmental dynamics of this transfer effect at the preattentive level, we conducted a …