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Article: Research data from Stephen F. Austin State University update understanding of life sciences.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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"The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship between undergraduate vocal music majors' diction acquisition abilities for singing in a normative language (as rated both by themselves and by their studio voice teachers) and their scores on an objective test of phonemic and stress perception. Ten students with varying levels of university voice training served as participants," scientists writing in the Journal of Voice report (see also Life Sciences).
"The results showed significant negative correlations between each of the teachers' four ratings and the students' scores on the phonemic awareness subtest. In addition, 20% of the students ...