MUSICIANS OUTPERFORM NONMUSICIANS IN A STUDY WITH SHADOWING SPEECH

Barbara Pastuszek-Lipinska
Adam Mickiewicz University

ID 1646
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In order to examine whether music education may be viewed as one of the factors which improve second language acquisition there were developed a research project. Two groups of subjects : with music training and without musical background were recruited and their responses to foreign language stimuli were recorded and then examined. Research results provide an evidence that musically trained people encounter fewer difficulties in foreign language sounds discrimination.