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SUBMITTER: Roncaglia-Denissen MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3778315 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roncaglia-Denissen M Paula MP Schmidt-Kassow Maren M Heine Angela A Vuust Peter P Kotz Sonja A SA
Frontiers in psychology 20130920
As language rhythm relies partly on general acoustic properties, such as intensity and duration, mastering two languages with distinct rhythmic properties (i.e., stress position) may enhance musical rhythm perception. We investigated whether competence in a second language (L2) with different rhythmic properties than a L1 affects musical rhythm aptitude. Turkish early (TELG) and late learners (TLLG) of German were compared to German late L2 learners of English (GLE) regarding their musical rhyth ...[more]