Rhythmic Music Training's Effect on Syntactic Structure Processing among Malay Adolescents with Syntactic Specific Language Impairment

[...]tliis study aims to investigate the effects of rhythmic music training on the syntactic structure processing of Malay which questions among native adolescents. [...]they are classified as children or adolescents with SLI, a classification that includes children who might differ considerably from one another in terms of their degree of language impairment. Children with S-SLI have trouble processing sentences in which the object moves across the subject, resulting in a noncanonical order of arguments, as in the case of object relative clauses, object wh-questions and topicalised structures (4-7). In a narrow sense, syntax concerns the set of rules and principles for combining words into larger units, such as phrases, clauses and sentences. [...]the similarities between linguistic and musical syntactic processing can be attributed to an overlap in brain networks that provide shared resources for syntactic integration (38).