The Neurobiological Bases of Speech Rhythm Sensitivity
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 337
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Neurobiological and genetic bases of speech rhythm sensitivity and the relationship between music aptitude; speech rhythm sensitivity and reading skills
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on the neurobiological basis of speech rhythm sensitivity. Sensitivity to speech rhythm (i.e., patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables) is known to bolster speech segmentation during infants’ language development, to contribute to lexical access, and to help listeners to parse the syntactic structure of utterances. Converging evidence also suggests that rhythm perception skills are related to reading acquisition and that knowledge about the metrical structure of words still plays a role in adults’ reading performance. In addition, better musical aptitude and musical expertise have both been associated with enhanced speech rhythm sensitivity, thus suggesting the existence of shared neurocognitive resources between the music and language domains.
In this Special Issue, we solicit cutting-edge research using a variety of complementary methods (e.g., EEG, MEG, fMRI, TMS, fNIRS) to explore the neuroanatomy and time-dynamic processes of speech rhythm perception. Studies that address these topics across the lifespan or from a cross-linguistic perspective are also welcomed.
Dr. Cyrille Magne
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Rhythm
- Meter
- Beat
- Prosody
- Speech Perception
- Reading
- Music
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