Music to Your Ears

Listeners usually have no difficulties telling the difference between speech and song. Yet when a spoken phrase is repeated several times, they often report perceptual transformation that turns into There great deal of variability in perception speech-to-song illusion (STS). It may result partly from linguistic properties phrases be due to individual processing listeners exposed STS. To date, existing evidence insufficient predict who most likely experience transformation, which sentences more conducive once repeatedly. The present study investigates these questions with French English listeners, testing hypothesis achieved by means functional re-evaluation phrasal prosody during repetition. Such prosodic re-analysis places demands on phonological structure language proficiency listeners. Two experiments show STS facilitated high-sonority listeners’ non-native languages support involves switch musical modes.