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The Relationship Between Musical Ability And The Perception And Production Of L2 Prosodic Features, Jun Akiyoshi
The Relationship Between Musical Ability And The Perception And Production Of L2 Prosodic Features, Jun Akiyoshi
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Studies in L2 acquisition have indicated that musically trained individuals are apt to demonstrate better L2 pronunciation skills. As for music, it was recently clarified that some amusiacs demonstrate selective impairment in L1 prosody discrimination. The purpose of this study was to investigate a relationship between amusical L2 learners and their perception and production of L2 prosody. To investigate this, 24 native-Japanese learners of English either in EFL (n=22) or ESL context (n=2) were examined in terms of their musical ability and L2 intonation perception and production. The musical test indicated that there was one amusiac and 10 low-level musical …