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.
We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perceptionskills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Musicskills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness andreading development. Regression analyses indicated that music perception skills contributedunique variance in predicting reading ability, even when variance due tophonological awareness and other cognitive abilities (math, digit span, and vocabulary)had been accounted for. Thus, music perception appears to tap auditory mechanismsrelated to reading that only partially overlap with those related tophonological awareness, suggesting that both linguistic and nonlinguistic generalauditory mechanisms are involved in reading.
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