更新日:2018/03/16
Announcement of the joint seminar of “Seminar on Developmental Science, Kyoto University” and “2nd Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition”
It is a pleasure to inform you that we will organize the following joint seminar of “Seminar on Developmental Science, Kyoto University”and “2nd Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition”.This time, we will have Dr. Fabia Franco from Middlesex University, London UK as the guest speaker. She will give us a talk about musical interactions and language development in infancy across cultures. The Seminar is admission-free and no reservation is required to participate in it. Please join in us. (*The talk is given in English, and no translation will be provided.)
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2nd April 2018 (Monday) 13:30-15:30
(The reception will open on 13:00)
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#4 lecture room, 2nd Floor, New Building of Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
(Between No.5 and No.8 in the map)
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13:30-13:40
Introduction
13:40-15:00
Musilanguage in the cradle: Musical interactions across cultures and
language development in infancy
Fabia Franco (PhD), Middlesex University, London UK
Abstract:
The contribution of music to the development of communication and language has only recently come to the attention of scientificinvestigation. In this talk I will argue that in an infant’s soundscape, music and language are not necessarily two separatesystems, particularly when considering the infant-directed register of communication. Rather, musical and linguistic interactions are situated along a continuum in which each modality has something specific to contribute, as well as offering overlapping and intersections. I will briefly review recent empirical and theoretical work and I will present a selection of examples from my research with infants, children and hunter-gatherers (M’bendjele, Batek, and Maniq). The results of my studies suggest that musical contexts facilitate phonetic discrimination (stimulus alternating preference procedure experiment) and attract infant attention (eye-tracking experiment) to the articulatory gesture, with higher levels of exposure to early musical interactions being associated with more favourable outcomes in early language development. Finally, I will present a novel questionnaire that we have designed to quantify informal musical interactions in the family and a first feasibility study for anintervention based on musical groups for parents and infants.
15:00-15:30
General discussion
* The talk is given in English, and no translation will be provided.
* No reservation is required for participating in the Seminar.
* Admission-free.
