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

Table 4

Intercorrelations of the music perception subtests (top part), as well as correlations of the music perception subtests with the subtests of the language screening (middle part) and with indicators of the socioeconomic background of the participants. Correlations are reported for the whole group (SLI, CA, and CL), their significance level is shown in parentheses, and significant correlations are indicated by bold typeface.

	Melodic perception		Rhythmic-melodic perception		Melody recognition
Melodic perception			0.64	(<0.001)	0.36	(0.001)
Rhythmic perception					0.45	(<0.001)
Language comprehension	0.20	(0.075)	0.31	(0.005)	0.33	(0.003)
Language production	0.11	(0.313)	0.24	(0.033)	0.29	(0.009)
Nonword repetition	0.32	(0.004)	0.42	(<0.001)	0.37	(0.001)
Sentence repetition	0.31	(0.002)	0.49	(<0.001)	0.41	(<0.001)
Hand movements	0.17	(0.139)	0.32	(0.004)	0.24	(0.034)
Spatial memory	0.20	(0.068)	0.24	(0.030)	−0.01	(0.944)
Mother’s ISEI score	0.05	(0.692)	0.00	(0.972)	0.14	(0.261)
Father’s ISEI score	−0.12	(0.374)	−0.04	(0.740)	0.04	(0.750)
Books in household	0.04	(0.731)	0.04	(0.735)	0.12	(0.315)
CDs in household	0.18	(0.121)	0.16	(0.183)	0.16	(0.190)