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McClay, Elise K.; Cebioglu, Senay; Broesch, Tanya; Yeung, H. Henny – Developmental Science, 2022
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is phonetically distinct from adult-directed speech (ADS): It is typically considered to have special prosody--like higher pitch and slower speaking rates--as well as unique speech sound properties, for example, more breathy, hyperarticulated, and/or variable consonant and vowel articulation. These phonetic features…
Descriptors: Child Language, Phonetics, Mothers, Foreign Countries
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Schertz, Jessamyn; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: We compare teens' and adults' imitation of sentences with shortened and lengthened voice onset time (VOT), in order to test whether purported age-based advantages in phonetic acquisition may be due to differences in imitative ability. Method: Teens (M[subscript age] = 13, n = 39) and adults (n = 31) completed an explicit imitation and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Imitation, Speech
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Hodge, Megan M.; Gotzke, Carrie L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Listeners' identification of young children's productions of minimally contrastive words and predictive relationships between accurately identified words and intelligibility scores obtained from a 100-word spontaneous speech sample were determined for 36 children with typically developing speech (TDS) and 36 children with speech sound disorders…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Speech Impairments, Phonology