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Members of the KE family who suffer from an inherited developmental speech-and-language disorder and normal, age-matched, controls were tested on musical abilities, including perception and production of pitch and rhythm. Affected family members were not deficient in either the perception or production of pitch, whether this involved either single notes or familiar melodies. However, they were deficient in both the perception and production of rhythm in both vocal and manual modalities. It is concluded that intonation abilities are not impaired in the affected family members, whereas their timing abilities are impaired. Neither their linguistic nor oral praxic deficits can be at the root of their impairment in timing; rather, the reverse may be true.

Original publication

DOI

10.1006/brln.2000.2323

Type

Journal article

Journal

Brain Lang

Publication Date

15/10/2000

Volume

75

Pages

34 - 46

Keywords

Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Apraxias, Child, Chromosome Aberrations, Chromosome Disorders, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Genes, Dominant, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Music, Neuropsychological Tests, Pitch Perception, Reference Values, Sound Spectrography, Speech Acoustics, Time Perception, Voice Quality