THE ROLE OF THE MUSICAL HEARING IN THE FORMATION OF PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE
THE ROLE OF THE MUSICAL HEARING IN THE FORMATION OF PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of the study was to determine whether the musical hearing may be considered among factors affecting the degree of a foreign accent in a second language (L2) and how important it is mastering the perceptual and productive aspects of the suprasegmental level of foreign languages by students of linguistics specializations. The results of the study showed that subjects with developed musical hearing performed tasks on both aspects - perceptual and productive - more successfully. However, there are reasons to assume that the significance degree of the influence of a developed musical hearing on both the perceptual and productive aspects may differ depending on a range of other factors. Therefore, further research aimed at establishing the role of musical hearing in the hierarchy of the factors affecting the development of the phonetic and phonological competence is of great importance. The obtained results might contribute to finding new original forms and methods of teaching phonetics of foreign languages based on musical art, as well as to improving the efficiency of mastering the phonetic-phonological competence by students of linguistics majors, and to creating auxiliary programs aimed at the developing of musical, and, consequently, phonetic hearing.

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