Children's singing and traces of its development: complementarity between studies and theories

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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v21i1.13374

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Children's singing; Musical cognition; Complementarity.

Abstract

In order to deal with some aspects of children's singing and its relation to some cognitive aspects, we take these the following steps: (1) musical capacity is presented in three different views that are not mutually exclusive; (2) more recent studies on musical development are reviewed, with focus on singing and (3) finally, children spontaneous singing is addressed. Children's singing should be a promising study object for us to understand the relationship between the perception of musical environment and the individual's singing production in childhood; and how this perception and production reflect the musical environment and allow us to detect aspects of musical cognition.

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Author Biography

Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros, Universidade de São Paulo (USP/Brasil)

Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros é doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Realizou estágio de pós-doutorado na Université de Provence Aix Marseille I, França. É professora da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) desde 2003. É membro do Grupo de Estudos em Fonética (GEF) e do Laboratório de Fonética da USP (LAFALIN). Tem experiência na área de Linguística, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: fonética, fonologia, linguagem, fala e canto. Há duas vertentes em seu trabalho de pesquisa: as relações entre a fala e o canto que apontam para os aspectos linguísticos que interagem com a música e a questão da nasalidade vocálica em PB, como um gesto complexo, que deve ser estudado à luz de uma teoria fonológica dinâmica.

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Published

2023-07-31

How to Cite

MEDEIROS, B. R. de . Children’s singing and traces of its development: complementarity between studies and theories. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 1, p. 373-391, 2023. DOI: 10.22481/el.v21i1.13374. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/13374. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.