The notion of speech prosody dates back to MonradKrohn's (1947) case study of a woman who was unable to produce the phonemic tone contrasts in her native Norwegian dialect, even though she retained considerable musical ability. Languages that exploit phonologically relevant variations in pitch a t the syllable level are called tone languages (for review of the phonetics of tone languages, see G...

Children with and without behavioral dichotic left-ear deficits participated in an event-related potential study with quasidichotic presentations of familiar fairy tale segments. Electrical activity was recorded from the scalp while the children listened for semantically and/or syntactically anomalous words from either the right side or the left side while competing segments of the fairy tale w...

Musical enjoyment for cochlear implant (CI) recipients is often reported to be unsatisfactory. Our goal was to determine whether the musical experience of postlingually deafened adult CI recipients could be enriched by presenting the bass and treble clef parts of short polyphonic piano pieces separately to each ear (dichotic). Dichotic presentation should artificially enhance the lateralization...