Absolute pitch among students in an American music conservatory: Association with tone language fluency
Absolute pitch among students in an American music conservatory: Association with tone language fluency
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10.1121/1.3081389
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
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2.4
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Head, Brian
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Deutsch, Diana;Dooley, Kevin;Head, Brian
绝对音高(AP)，即在没有参考音符的情况下命名音符的能力，在美国和欧洲非常罕见，其起源尚不清楚。在美国音乐学院的学生中，AP的患病率被检测为音乐训练开始年龄、种族和说一种音调语言的流利程度的函数。以东亚族裔为例，在AP测试中，与那些说得相当流利的人相比，那些说得非常流利的人在AP测试中的表现水平显著高于说得相当流利的人，而且与说不流利的人相比也是如此。这最后一组学生的表现水平与只说非声调语言的高加索学生没有显著差异。早期开始的音乐训练与提高表演能力有关，但这与语言的效果没有交互作用。进一步的分析表明，这一结果不能用早期音乐教育的国家来解释。研究结果支持声调语言使用者习得AP的过程与第二声调语言的习得过程相同的假设。(C)2009年美国声学学会。[DOI：10.1121/1.3081389]
Absolute pitch (AP), the ability to name a musical note in the absence of a reference note, is extremely rare in the U.S. and Europe, and its genesis is unclear. The prevalence of AP was examined among students in an American music conservatory as a function of age of onset of musical training, ethnicity, and fluency in speaking a tone language. Taking those of East Asian ethnicity, the performance level on a test of AP was significantly higher among those who spoke a tone language very fluently compared with those who spoke a tone language fairly fluently and also compared with those who were not fluent in speaking a tone language. The performance level of this last group did not differ significantly from that of Caucasian students who spoke only nontone language. Early onset of musical training was associated with enhanced performance, but this did not interact with the effect of language. Further analyses showed that the results could not be explained by country of early music education. The findings support the hypothesis that the acquisition of AP by tone language speakers involves the same process as occurs in the acquisition of a second tone language. (C) 2009 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI: 10.1121/1.3081389]