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Mani, Nivedita; Coleman, John; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Speech, 2008
Previous research has shown that English infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of vowels in familiar words by as early as 15-months of age. These results suggest that not only are infants sensitive to large mispronunciations of the vowels in words, but also sensitive to smaller mispronunciations, involving changes to only one dimension of the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Deafness, Infants, Phonology
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McGarr, Nancy S. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines the effect of redundancy of information on the intelligibility of hearing and deaf children's speech. Based on intelligibility scores obtained for a set of words presented both in context and in isolation, suggests that the children do not use the same production strategies to assist listeners. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis