Purpose of this paper is to inform the professional audience, how the view on timbre and phonemic hearing from the point of view of musical psychology, linguistics, logopaedics and neurophysiology evolves. Readers will be presented with methods and the outcome of the author's field research that aimed at assessment of quality of timbre and phonemic hearing and auditory attention of pre-school children with speech disorders and a different mother tongue.
The research is a part of the project Music as a significant mean of speech and language cultivation in preschool children that was financed by the grant GAUK (no.934213).