Rhythmic priming enhances speech production abilities: Evidence from prelingually deaf children.

Cason, Nia; Hidalgo, Céline; Isoard, Florence; Roman, S.; Schön, Daniele

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“…Rhythmic training sessions have proved useful to enhance the phonological perception of words and sentences [1,2,3], to help primary school children acquire reading skills [8], to improve oral production by children with cochlear implants [4], and to improve stress placement [5] and general pronunciation in learners of English [6,7]. In this study, we extend previous findings by showing in Exp.…”

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“…Priming studies by Cason and collaborators have shown that the phonological processing of speech by adult participants is enhanced by the temporal expectations generated by a musical rhythmic prime [1,2]. Regarding production skills, Cason et al [4] showed that the same priming effect benefits hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants. Similarly, Bhide et al [8] found that a twomonth program of phonological and rhythmic training helped children who were considered poor readers to improve their literacy skills.…”

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Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from Catalan and Chinese learners of French

Baills¹,

Zhang²,

Prieto³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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Previous research has shown that rhythmic training enhances phonological speech processing (e.g., [1,2,3,4]). Yet little is known about whether rhythmic training can also help to improve pronunciation in a second language (but see [5,6,7]). This study tests the potential benefits of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words for the acquisition of pronunciation patterns by Catalan children and Chinese adolescents. In two between-subjects experiments with a pretest and posttest design, participants either repeated words while clapping the rhythmic structure of words or only repeated the words. The French target words were very similar to their lexical counterparts in Catalan, whereas they differed completely from Chinese. Participants' oral production before and after training was rated for accentedness by three French native speakers. Results showed a significant improvement for the clapping group among the Catalan participants, whereas only a near significant tendency appeared for the Chinese adolescents. Individual musical abilities did not interact significantly with the results in either experiments but working memory played a significant role in Chinese participants' pronunciation. The results show that a short phonological training session based on highlighting the rhythmic structure of words seems to help improve pronunciation in a foreign language as long as there is little demand placed on semantic processing.

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Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from Catalan and Chinese learners of French

Baills¹,

Zhang²,

Prieto³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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“…Cason and Schön (2012; [19]) previously reported a crossdomain priming effect of music on speech processing, which was reflected by a similar increased negativity when the metrical structure of the spoken target word did not match the rhythmic structure of the musical prime. Several other findings have since shown that temporal expectancies generated by rhythmically regular musical primes can facilitate spoken language processing in typical adults (e.g., [20,47]), and children [48,49], as well as adults with Parkinson's disease [50], children with cochlear implants [51], and children with language disorders [52]. This beneficial effect may stem from the regular rhythmic structure of the musical prime, which provides temporally predictable cues to which internal neural oscillators can anchor [20].…”

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Cross-Modal Priming Effect of Rhythm on Visual Word Recognition and Its Relationships to Music Aptitude and Reading Achievement

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Moon

Steele

et al. 2018

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Recent evidence suggests the existence of shared neural resources for rhythm processing in language and music. Such overlaps could be the basis of the facilitating effect of regular musical rhythm on spoken word processing previously reported for typical children and adults, as well as adults with Parkinson’s disease and children with developmental language disorders. The present study builds upon these previous findings by examining whether musical rhythmic priming also influences visual word processing, and the extent to which such cross-modal priming effect of rhythm is related to individual differences in musical aptitude and reading skills. EEG was recorded while participants listened to a rhythmic tone prime, followed by a visual target word with a stress pattern that either matched or mismatched the rhythmic structure of the auditory prime. Participants were also administered standardized assessments of musical aptitude and reading achievement. ERPs elicited by target words with a mismatching stress pattern showed an increased fronto-central negativity. Additionally, the size of the negative effect correlated with individual differences in musical rhythm aptitude and reading comprehension skills. Results support the existence of shared neurocognitive resources for linguistic and musical rhythm processing, and have important implications for the use of rhythm-based activities for reading interventions.

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“…Once the metrical rules, which provide important cues for speech segmentation within the continuous speech stream, have been acquired, speech meter contributes to phonological (Pitt & Samuel, 1990), semantic (Schwartze et al, 2011) and syntactic (Roncaglia-Denissen et al, 2013) processing. Musical rhythmic priming, using meter, has been revealed to enhance phonological production in hearing impaired children, due to an enhanced perception of sentences (Cason et al, 2015). Furthermore, in the context of speech rehabilitation therapies, musical rhythm has been revealed to be a fluency-enhancing tool (Thaut, 2013).…”

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Large-Scale plurimodal networks common to listening, production and reading word-lists: an fmri study combining tasks-induced activation and intrinsic connectivity in 144 right-handers

Hesling

Labache

Joliot

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Neuroimaging studies on language have revealed that the conjunction between speech production and comprehension elicited a common implication of frontal and temporal regions and it is now admitted that speech perception and production rely on both auditory and motor areas. This overlap has been revealed to be also present between reading and listening, but so far no study has simultaneously investigated the overlap of regions involved in the three language tasks (production, perception and reading). The aim of this study is to identify leftward heteromodal brain areas common to these 3 language tasks and to question the existence of right brain areas. Using functional MRI and a new functional regional atlas totally suited for investigating brain lateralization, we performed a conjunction of activated and asymmetrical brain areas in 144 right-handers, to determine the core language areas involved in word list production, perception and reading. Results revealed 3 leftward-clusters, the first one included areas along the central sulcus and premotor supplementary area, the second one included hand motor area, the third one included two regions of the supramarginal gyrus. One the right, the first cluster out of 3 was made of the superior temporal sulcus (STS3).Leftward frontal and precentral areas together with temporo-parietal areas have been revealed to be commonly activated and asymmetrical, leading to the hypothesis of the involvement of phonological action perception circuits such as the phonological working memory loop, in which articulatory gestures are the central motor units on which word perception, production and reading would develop and act according to the motor theory of speech. On the right hemisphere, the common activation and asymmetry of the STS3, which is a prosodic integrative area, could reflect the processing of fine spectral details over time.

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Rhythmic priming enhances speech production abilities: Evidence from prelingually deaf children.

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from Catalan and Chinese learners of French

Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from Catalan and Chinese learners of French

Cross-Modal Priming Effect of Rhythm on Visual Word Recognition and Its Relationships to Music Aptitude and Reading Achievement

Large-Scale plurimodal networks common to listening, production and reading word-lists: an fmri study combining tasks-induced activation and intrinsic connectivity in 144 right-handers

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