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How do musically tone-deaf individuals produce and perceive pitch targets in speech?

Lead Research Organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Speech Hearing and Phonetic Science

Abstract

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Publications

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Yi Xu (Author) (2010) Phonetic vs. phonological approaches to prosody : how different are the questions asked across the divide?

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Fang Liu (Author) (2011) Why does congenital amusia only affect speech processing in minor ways? : evidence from a group of Chinese amusics

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Yi Xu (Author) (2011) Prosodic functions as morphemes

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Santitham Prom-On (Author) (2011) Simulating post-L F0 bouncing by modeling articulatory dynamics

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Fang Liu (Author) (2011) Tone and intonation processing in Chinese-speaking congenital amusics

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Santitham Prom-On (Author) (2011) Functional modeling of tone, focus and sentence type in Mandarin Chinese

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Prom-On S (2012) Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: acoustic analysis and computational modeling. in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Liu F (2012) The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: evidence from Mandarin speakers. in PloS one

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Liu F (2013) Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: implications for music and language processing. in Attention, perception & psychophysics

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Fang Liu (Author) (2013) Morpheme-like prosodic functions: Evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling in Journal of Speech Sciences

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Loutrari A (2022) Song Imitation in Congenital Amusia in Music Perception

 
Description What can congenital amusia tell us about language processing? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Congenital amusia is a neuro-­-developmental disorder of musical perception. Previous research has suggested that this disorder is confined to the musical domain, as the majority of amusics showed no problems with speech intonation processing. Drawing upon evidence from our recent studies, in this talk, I will demonstrate that amusia impacts upon one's linguistic abilities in subtle ways for speakers of both tone and non-­-tonal languages.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
URL http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/areas/psychology/language/music/index.aspx