Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive Performance of Adult Learners' Sound-Discrimination Abilities in an Unknown Foreign Language
Author
Friederike Flottmann
Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? This study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them.