Abstract
We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception
skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old
children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with
both phonological awareness and reading development. Regression analyses
indicated that music perception skills contributed unique variance
in predicting reading ability, even when variance due to phonological
awareness and other cognitive abilities (math, digit span, and vocabulary)
had been accounted for. Thus, music perception appears to tap auditory
mechanisms related to reading that only partially overlap with those
related to phonological awareness, suggesting that both linguistic
and nonlinguistic general auditory mechanisms are involved in reading.
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- and
- auditory
- development,female,humans,language
- development,male,music,phonetics,preschool,reading,task
- perception,awareness,child,child
- performance
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