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Constructive Interrelationship Between Structural Components in Early Music and Language Learning

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Language, Music, and Computing (LMAC 2015)

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This paper explores the similarities between music and language in communicating meaning, and considers the advantages of using these similarities to enhance language acquisition in a school curriculum. Comparing music (as a sonic, non-verbal, and inter-human medium with cross-domain connotations according to particular socio-cultural conventions) with language (as a verbal, cognitive medium, demonstrating denotation and a direct pathway from an object/idea to an interpreter) reveals common structures inherent to both. This study relies on both recent research in the overlapping fields of language and music and personal data collected while teaching language and music over the last six years to address the following question: how can music education ease language acquisition in schools? Although the positive influence of music on language acquisition is well established, the current research will elaborate the dynamism of this influence.

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    Bijan Zelli

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Zelli, B. (2015). Constructive Interrelationship Between Structural Components in Early Music and Language Learning. In: Eismont, P., Konstantinova, N. (eds) Language, Music, and Computing. LMAC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27498-0_4

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