Language Differences Between Music And Language

Chapter 1

Introduction

Music and language- for the first time it seems like that these are two fields which have no relation to each other. However, both of them are part of everyday life used for expressing oneselves, conveying information and emotions towards the others. One might think that it is much easier to be done by language by the help of words, but sometimes the purity of music can be more helpful to get a message across, to reach out to the others. It leaves a space for the audience to fill without causing misunderstanding. Those who have been engaged in musical activities for a long time understand it the best, the feeling of putting everything into a piece, and letting everything out.

Music is sometimes considered to be a distinct

It will also be discussed how these changes affect the success of acquiring a second language, whether musicians have greater proficiency in a foreign language than non-musicians; these will be explained by the help of previous literature which have been written relevant to this field. In the second part of the paper, an own research will be conducted inspired by Michael S. Franklin’s study, who focused his interest on the differences between the verbal memory of musicians – who have started their musical training before the age of 10 - and non-musicians, using Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (Franklin et al., 2008). The aim is to find out whether it can be concluded among a group of 14-15 years old Hungarian students, who have received advanced number of music lessons and have learned English as a second language for at least 6 years, that their verbal memory is better than those of who had music lessons only required by the

The size of gray matter correlates with cognition, the bigger it is within an area, the more effectively it can be used. White matter is responsible for connecting gray matters; among which corpus callosum is considered to be the largest, which provides a link between the two hemispheres, and as musical training enlarges the size of it –which correlates to the age of start of training, and the hours of training (Bailey, Zatorre & Penhune, 2014) and it “may reflect the highly skilled bimanual motor coordination and auditory skills that musicians require in order to play their instrument” (Moore, Schaefer, Bastin, Roberts & Overy, 2014) -, altogether it leads to better interhemispheric connection. The increased white matter also enhances the intercorrelations between temporal and frontal