Interdisciplinary connections between
Evolution, Music, Language, And Reading
The Science of Why Using Music to Teach Children Works.
Connections Between Speech and Song
Evolution
- EVOLUTION OF INTERSPECIES ANIMAL LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION, EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE SHOWS THE ROOTS OF LANGUAGE
- THE SINGING NEANDERTHAL - Listen & Read Text
Music
- The link between music and language
Exposure to certain patterns of speech can influence one's perceptions of musical rhythms. Native languages influence the way people group non-language sounds into rhythms. - BABIES REMEMBER MUSIC HEARD IN THE WOMB
- Sync Sense What Social Rhythm Researchers have to report.
- LISTENING TO MUSIC AND READING COMPREHENSION
- Evolution of Music and Language PDF
Language
LANGUAGE IS MUSIC AND MUSIC IS LANGUAGE
Listen to Piraha sung speech - two boys singing about a day's events
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- INTRODUCTION TO THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
- Rhythmic patterns underlie the human language
Musical Roots lie in the human voice. READING AND RHYMING GAMES are good. The better infants are at distinguishing the different parts of words, the better they will be later using more complex language, researchers say. Learn to wire the brain to be calm and attentive by using music and speech. - Evolution of Speech is associated with the auditory sense, and is not closely tied to the world of objects or other people. It is the most widely and democratically shared across humans, and is the most thoroughly studied intelligence. The origin of language. Communication evolved hand-in-hand with social bonding.
"The work tells us that communication is right there at the base of social behaviour and that having a larger vocal repertoire allows you to have a more complex social set up," says Karen McComb, at the University of Sussex, UK. - Before Speech is Gesture - Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months
Reading
- Why Play is Important
- Jumprope and Children's Health
- Origins of Folksongs, Nursery Rhymes, Play Parties, Indiginous Playground Poetry Early Literacy - Get those Nursery Rhymes
- 38 page PDF Collection of Children's Folksongs, Chants and Rhymes
- FOLKSONG - CHANTS RESOURCES
- Why Use Playground Game Chants to Teach Reading
- How To Use PlayGround Game Chants To Teach Reading
- Singing Familiar Songs is Found to Use Spatial Abilities in the brain.
By 6 months of age, infants develop a map in the auditory cortex of the phonetic sounds in the native language their mother or caretaker speaks. How does the brain work? Depending on the language they either will or will not develop perfect pitch.
- Music Appreciation 'Hard Wired' in Brain,
Research Shows It takes no musical training to recognize a wrong note... but why is that so? New research shows that sensitivity to music is a natural function of the human brain. NPR's Richard Knox reports. 12/28/2002 - Music and Intelligence Articles, Books, Research Recommendations reference research citations
- Piano and Computer Training Boost Student Math Achievement
- Music & Culture
- Music & Science
- Music & Technology