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Peer reviewedKarzon, R. Gottlieb – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
A high-amplitude sucking procedure, with synthesized female speech, was used to ascertain the effects of fundamental frequency, amplitude, and duration on discrimination of polysyllabic sequences. Results suggest that the exaggerated suprasegmentals of infant-directed speech may function as a perceptual catalyst, focusing the infant's attention on…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Infants, Language Research, Phonemes
Peer reviewedMann, Virginia A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examined the effects of rounded and unrounded vowels on the perception of the voiceless fricatives "s" and "sh" by adults and by young children who could and could not produce both sounds. Concluded that productive mastery is not critically responsible for perception of the distinction between the two phonemes or the…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedWarren-Leubecker, Amye; Carter, Beth Warren – Child Development, 1988
Three types of metalinguistic awareness and their relation to socioeconomic status, vocabulary, reading readiness skills, and reading acheivement were longitudinally studied in a sample of 40 kindergartners and 43 first graders. The three metalinguistic tasks were highly interrelated until the effects of oral language comprehension or vocabulary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Language Research
