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Article: The Selectivity of Musical Advantage: Musicians Exhibit Perceptual Advantage for Some but Not All Cantonese Tones
Title | The Selectivity of Musical Advantage: Musicians Exhibit Perceptual Advantage for Some but Not All Cantonese Tones |
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Keywords | OPERA hypothesis Musical advantage Pitch perception Tone perception Music-to-language transfer |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Citation | Music Perception, 2020, v. 37, n. 5, p. 423-434 How to Cite? |
Abstract | THE OPERAHYPOTHESIS THEORIZES HOWMUSICAL experience heightens perceptual acuity to lexical tones. One missing element in the hypothesis is whether musical advantage is general to all or specific to some lexical tones. To further extend the hypothesis, this study investigated whether English musicians consistently outperformed English nonmusicians in perceiving a variety of Cantonese tones. In an AXB discrimination task, the musicians exhibited superior discriminatory performance over the nonmusicians only in the high level, high rising, and mid-level tone contexts. Similarly, in a Cantonese tone sequence recall task, the musicians significantly outperformed the nonmusicians only in the contour tone context but not in the level tone context. Collectively, the results reflect the selectivity of musical advantage-musical experience is only advantageous to the perception of some but not all Cantonese tones, and elements of selectivity can be introduced to the OPERA hypothesis. Methodologically, the findings highlight the need to include a wide variety of lexical tone contrasts when studying music-to-language transfer. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/302289 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.785 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Choi, William | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-30T13:58:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-30T13:58:10Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Music Perception, 2020, v. 37, n. 5, p. 423-434 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0730-7829 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/302289 | - |
dc.description.abstract | THE OPERAHYPOTHESIS THEORIZES HOWMUSICAL experience heightens perceptual acuity to lexical tones. One missing element in the hypothesis is whether musical advantage is general to all or specific to some lexical tones. To further extend the hypothesis, this study investigated whether English musicians consistently outperformed English nonmusicians in perceiving a variety of Cantonese tones. In an AXB discrimination task, the musicians exhibited superior discriminatory performance over the nonmusicians only in the high level, high rising, and mid-level tone contexts. Similarly, in a Cantonese tone sequence recall task, the musicians significantly outperformed the nonmusicians only in the contour tone context but not in the level tone context. Collectively, the results reflect the selectivity of musical advantage-musical experience is only advantageous to the perception of some but not all Cantonese tones, and elements of selectivity can be introduced to the OPERA hypothesis. Methodologically, the findings highlight the need to include a wide variety of lexical tone contrasts when studying music-to-language transfer. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Music Perception | - |
dc.rights | Music Perception. Copyright © University of California Press. | - |
dc.rights | Published as [Music Perception, 2020, v. 37, n. 5, p. 423-434]. © [2020] by [the Regents of the University of California/Sponsoring Society or Association]. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by [the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of the Sponsoring Society] for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center. | - |
dc.subject | OPERA hypothesis | - |
dc.subject | Musical advantage | - |
dc.subject | Pitch perception | - |
dc.subject | Tone perception | - |
dc.subject | Music-to-language transfer | - |
dc.title | The Selectivity of Musical Advantage: Musicians Exhibit Perceptual Advantage for Some but Not All Cantonese Tones | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1525/MP.2020.37.5.423 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85104632122 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 324157 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 423 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 434 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1533-8312 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000573281000004 | - |