Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083,
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875,
J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 May;145(5):EL354. doi: 10.1121/1.5100899.
This study adopted the Musical Ear Test [Wallentin, Nielsen, Friis-Olivarius, Vuust, and Vuust (2010). Learn. Indiv. Diff. 20, 188-196] to compare musical competence of sighted and congenitally blind Mandarin speakers. On the rhythm subtest, the blind participants outperformed the sighted. On the melody subtest, however, the two groups performed equally well. Compared with sighted speakers of non-tonal languages reported in previous studies [Wallentin, Nielsen, Friis-Olivarius, Vuust, and Vuust (2010). Learn. Indiv. Diff. 20, 188-196; Bhatara, Yeung, and Nazzi (2015). J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 41(2), 277-282], sighted Mandarin speakers performed better only on the melody subtest. These results indicate that tonal language experience and congenital blindness exert differential influences on musical aptitudes with rhythm perception reflecting a cross-modal compensation effect and melody perception dominated by a cross-domain language-to-music transfer effect.
本研究采用音乐耳朵测试(Wallentin、Nielsen、Friis-Olivarius、Vuust 和 Vuust,2010 年)来比较有视力和先天性失明的普通话使用者的音乐能力。在节奏测试中,盲人参与者的表现优于有视力的参与者。然而,在旋律测试中,两组表现相当。与先前研究中报告的非声调语言的有视力说话者相比(Wallentin、Nielsen、Friis-Olivarius、Vuust 和 Vuust,2010 年;Bhatara、Yeung 和 Nazzi,2015 年),有视力的普通话使用者仅在旋律测试中表现更好。这些结果表明,声调语言经验和先天性失明对音乐能力有不同的影响,节奏感知反映了跨模态补偿效应,而旋律感知则受跨领域语言到音乐转移效应的主导。