Re: children's perception and production of rhythmic features

[Eliot Handelman <eliot@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/03/2011 1:26 PM, Stefanie Stadler Elmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> could anyone please help me to find literature on the development of 
> children's perception and production of rhythmic features such as
>
> a) regular pulse (without accents)
> b) meter (periodic patterns of strong and weak accents)
> c) variations on top of meter, so called rhythm ?

Hannon, E. E., & Trehub, S. E. (2005). Tuning in to musical rhythms: 
Infants learn
more readily than adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences of the
United States of America, 102(35), 12639–12643.


mentioned in "Born to dance but deaf," J. Phillips-Silver et al., 
Neuropsychologia:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/70584/title/A_man_lost_in_musical_time?#video



best,

-- eliot