TY - JOUR AU - Walt, Olivia PY - 2022/08/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Your words are music to my ears: An analysis of the effects of musical affinity on the ability to identify composite pure tones as American English vowels JF - Colorado Research in Linguistics JA - CRIL VL - 26 IS - SE - Undergraduate Research Papers DO - UR - https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/1585 SP - AB - <p>While it may be considered common knowledge that spoken language and music production overlap in their utilization of both the physical and perceptual aspects of sound, there appears to be less known as to just how much having an affinity for processing music can help (or hinder) a person’s ability to process language. The research described in this paper offers an in-depth exploration to this question by way of a study wherein individuals' perceptions and productions of synthesized vowel sounds are cross-compared and analyzed according to the level of each participant's musical affinity.&nbsp;</p> ER -