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Yi Weng; Yicheng Rong; Gang Peng – Child Development, 2024
The developmental trajectory of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children remains understudied. This cross-sectional study in Mandarin-speaking 3- to 4-year-old, 5- to 6-year-old, 7- to 8-year-old children, and adults from Xiamen, China (n = 87, 44 males) investigated this issue using the McGurk paradigm with three levels of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception
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Pons, Ferran; Albareda-Castellot, Barbara; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Child Development, 2012
Vowels with extreme articulatory-acoustic properties act as natural referents. Infant perceptual asymmetries point to an underlying bias favoring these referent vowels. However, as language experience is gathered, distributional frequency of speech sounds could modify this initial bias. The perception of the /i/-/e/ contrast was explored in 144…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Acoustics, Vocabulary Development