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

Table 3

Correlations of all music perception subtests with the language comprehension subtest of the language screening (significance level in parentheses) for all groups of children (first column) as well as each subgroup separately (second to fourth column). Significant correlations are indicated by bold typeface.

	All children ( = 81/79)		SLI ( = 29/27)		CA ()		CL ()
Melodic perception
Standard	0.10	(0.357)	0.06	(0.764)	0.03	(0.840)	0.17	(0.579)
Transposed	0.13	(0.242)	0.26	(0.169)	0.07	(0.684)	−0.03	(0.931)
Comparable	0.19	(0.097)	0.07	(0.715)	0.10	(0.559)	−0.14	(0.655)
Sum score	0.20	(0.075)	0.14	(0.474)	0.08	(0.628)	0.00	(0.993)
Rhythmic-melodic perception
Standard	0.16	(0.166)	0.11	(0.578)	0.02	(0.908)	−0.06	(0.845)
Transposed	0.26	(0.017)	0.47	(0.010)	−0.03	(0.855)	0.23	(0.448)
Comparable	0.32	(0.004)	0.18	(0.354)	0.22	(0.189)	−0.06	(0.853)
Sum score	0.31	(0.005)	0.38	(0.044)	0.11	(0.511)	0.01	(0.964)
Melody recognition
Standard	0.28	(0.014)	0.33	(0.091)	0.08	(0.628)	0.36	(0.227)
Faster	0.29	(0.011)	0.39	(0.043)	0.26	(0.113)	0.26	(0.383)
Timbre-change	0.40	(<0.001)	0.52	(0.005)	0.25	(0.118)	0.53	(0.065)
Transposed	0.25	(0.029)	0.28	(0.153)	0.22	(0.171)	0.35	(0.239)
Sum score	0.33	(0.003)	0.45	(0.019)	0.19	(0.236)	0.39	(0.188)