Perception and production of linguistic and musical rhythm by Korean and English middle school students
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Date
2008-10
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Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
I examine rhythmic tendencies of Korean and Western middle school
students in linguistic and abstract musical contexts using a series of speaking and
clapping experiments. Results indicate a preference in both groups for beat
subdivisions in small integer ratios and simple binary metric interpretations. These
preferences are consistently more exaggerated in native English speaking students than
in Korean students. Tempo was a significant factor in all tasks.
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cross-cultural experimentation, rhythm, meter, perception, language
Citation
Empirical Musicology Review, v3 n4 (October 2008), 187-204