Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation

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dc.contributor.authorJekiel, Mateusz
dc.contributor.authorMalarski, Kamil
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-03T05:57:58Z
dc.date.available2023-04-03T05:57:58Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-31
dc.description.abstractThe present study seeks to determine whether superior musical hearing is correlated with successful production of second language (L2) intonation patterns. Fifty Polish speakers of English at the university level were recorded before and after an extensive two-semester accent training course in English. Participants were asked to read aloud a series of short dialogues containing different intonation patterns, complete two musical hearing tests measuring tone deafness and melody discrimination, and a survey regarding musical experience. We visually analyzed and assessed participants’ intonation by comparing their F0 contours with the model provided by their accent training teachers following ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) guidelines and compared the results with the musical hearing test scores and the survey responses. The results suggest that more accurate pitch perception can be related to more correct production of L2 intonation patterns as participants with superior musical ear produced more native-like speech contours after training, similar to those of their teachers. After dividing participants into four categories based on their musical hearing test scores and musical experience, we also observed that some students with better musical hearing test scores were able to produce more correct L2 intonation patterns. However, students with poor musical hearing test scores and no musical background also improved, suggesting that the acquisition of L2 intonation in a formal classroom setting can be successful regardless of one’s musical hearing skills.pl
dc.description.journaltitleStudies in Second Language Learning and Teachingpl
dc.description.pageof151pl
dc.description.pageto178pl
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the National Science Center in Poland, Grant 2014/ 15/N/HS2/03865. Principal investigator: Mateusz Jekiel. Recipient: Adam Mickie- wicz University, Poznań, Poland.pl
dc.description.tome1pl
dc.description.volume13pl
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 13 (1), 2023, pp. 151-178.pl
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.23166
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10593/27240
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.publisherDepartment of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Polandpl
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectlanguage and musicpl
dc.subjectintonationpl
dc.subjectpitch perceptionpl
dc.subjectpronunciation learningpl
dc.titleMusical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonationpl
dc.typeArtykułpl

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