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  • Title: The linguistic benefits of musical abilities.
    Author: Patel AD, Iversen JR.
    Journal: Trends Cogn Sci; 2007 Sep; 11(9):369-72. PubMed ID: 17698406.
    Abstract:
    Growing evidence points to a link between musical abilities and certain phonetic and prosodic skills in language. However, the mechanisms that underlie these relations are not well understood. A recent study by Wong et al. suggests that musical training sharpens the subcortical encoding of linguistic pitch patterns. We consider the implications of their methods and findings for establishing a link between musical training and phonetic abilities more generally.
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