title: Auditory temporal-regularity processing correlates with language and literacy skill in early adulthood.
abstract: This work tests the hypothesis that language skill depends on the ability to incorporate streams of sound into an accurate temporal framework. We tested the ability of young English-speaking adults to process single time intervals and rhythmic sequences of such intervals, hypothesized to be relevant to the analysis of the temporal structure of language. The data implicate a specific role for the ability to process beat-based temporal regularities in phonological language and literacy skill.
authors.affiliation: a Newcastle Auditory Group, Medical School , Newcastle University , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK.
authors.forename: Manon
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grube
authors.forename: Freya E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Timothy D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult