ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Singing Mandarin? What Short-Term Memory Capacity, Basic Auditory Skills, and Musical and Singing Abilities Reveal About Learning Mandarin.
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- Sounds of creativity: musical, creative, and language factors associated with singing and creative singing.Psychological research · 2026Article
- The influence of musicality on expressive fable reading: adult- and child-directed perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Trusting self-evaluation: predicting music and language performance from subjective ratings.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Misjudgement of One's Own Performance? Exploring Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADHD) and Individual Difference in Complex Music and Foreign Language Perception.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Neuroanatomical Disposition, Natural Development, and Training-Induced Plasticity of the Human Auditory System from Childhood to Adulthood: A 12-Year Study in Musicians and Nonmusicians.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- What Makes a Foreign Language Intelligible? An Examination of the Impact of Musical Ability and Individual Differences on Language Perception and How Intelligible Foreign Languages Appear.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Short-term plasticity of neuro-auditory processing induced by musical active listening training.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Article
- Examining Individual Differences in Singing, Musical and Tone Language Ability in Adolescents and Young Adults with Dyslexia.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Learning Mandarin has become increasingly important in the Western world but is rather difficult to be learnt by speakers of non-tone languages. Since tone language learning requires very precise tonal ability, we set out to test whether musical skills, musical status, singing ability, singing behavior during childhood, basic auditory skills, and short-term memory ability contribute to individual differences in Mandarin performance. Therefore, we developed Mandarin tone discrimination and pronunciation tasks to assess individual differences in adult participants' (
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