Sounds familiar (?): Expertise with specific musical genres modulates timing perception and micro-level synchronization to auditory stimuli

A Danielsen, K Nymoen, MT Langerød… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2022 - Springer
Musical expertise improves the precision of timing perception and performance–but is this
expertise generic, or is it tied to the specific style (s) and genre (s) of one's musical training …

Individual differences in nonnative lexical tone perception: Effects of tone language repertoire and musical experience

XR Toh, F Lau, FCK Wong - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study sought to understand the effects of tone language repertoire and musical
experience on nonnative lexical tone perception and production. Thirty-one participants …

The combined effects of bilingualism and musicianship on listeners' perception of non-native lexical tones

L Zhang, J Zhu, J Shao, C Zhang - Speech Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-native lexical tone perception can be affected by listeners' musical or linguistic
experience, but it remains unclear of whether there will be combined effects and how these …

An investigation of acoustic cues to tonal registers and voicing in Donglei Kam

C Guo, F Chen, C Kuang, L Dong - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The Kam language has experienced historical tonal splits, resulting in the development of a
complex tonal system. However, there is still limited knowledge regarding the acoustic …

Language-to-music transfer effects depend on the tone language: Akan vs. East Asian tone languages

SC Creel, M Obiri-Yeboah, S Rose - Memory & Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Recent research suggests that speaking a tone language confers benefits in processing
pitch in nonlinguistic contexts such as music. This research largely compares speakers of …