Sentence examples for melodic input from inspiring English sources

Thus, a highly structured rhyming and melodic input substantially facilitates gender-like category induction, making a case for the use of children's songs in language teaching.

Apart from short-term effects on verbal recall, a rhyming or melodic input presentation may have a positive effect on the acquisition of linguistic categories and sequences.

The positive effect of melodic input was still observed when the linguistic and melodic information was decoupled and variable syllable-pitch mappings were used, such that there was no correlation between linguistic and melodic transitional probabilities (Experiment 3).

Ludke, Ferreira, and Overy (2014) found that participants engaged in a paired-associate phrase learning task in a foreign language (Hungarian) performed significantly better when they imitated melodic input in training (i.e., when they listened to sung utterances and sang them as well) than when they imitated plain prose or rhythmic speech.

For instance, using Ableton, which is the main program I use, you can input melodic information from an old tape loop from the '50s, and use the computer to turn that into MIDI, which it always does in an imperfect way and that's brilliant, I never want to see the day when it does that perfectly.

Hence, it is conceivable that a melodic or rhyming presentation of linguistic input enhances language learning.

We trained participants with structured or unstructured input presented in a prose, a rhyming, a melodic, or a rhyming and melodic fashion.

Critically, in the children's song, the relevant linguistic input is presented in a rhyming, melodic, and rhythmic presentation.

Moreover, language plays often combine a highly structured input with a rhyming or a melodic presentation or both.

They are highly structured, structurally repetitive, and often combine a highly structured input with a rhyming or a melodic presentation, or both.

In summary, we have demonstrated that a structured input, presented in a rhyming and melodic fashion, is most effective in assisting the acquisition of gender-like subclasses.