Music Perception Influences Language Acquisition: Melodic and Rhythmic-Melodic Perception in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Figure 1

Overview of the stimuli used in the melodic perception (left) and rhythmic-melodic perception (right) tasks. The nursery rhyme used in the melodic perception tasks had the title “Es war eine Mutter, die hatte vier Kinder,” the one for the rhythmic-melodic perception tasks had the title “Alle Vögel sind schon da.” Each task had three conditions: standard (first line), transposed (first line, but played in another key), and comparable (bottom line).