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Osnat Segal; Dana Moyal – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to examine whether there is a listening preference for child-directed speech (CDS) over backward speech in moderate-preterm infants (MPIs). Method: Eighteen MPIs of gestational age of 32.0 weeks (range: 32-34.06 weeks), chronological age of 8.09 months, and maturation age of 6.48 months served as the…
Descriptors: Infants, Premature Infants, Listening, Preferences
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Varley, Rosemary; Whiteside, Sandra; Windsor, Fay; Fisher, Helen – Brain and Language, 2006
In a recent article, Aichert and Ziegler (2004) explore whether apraxia of speech (AOS) can be explained by disruption of the phonetic plans for high frequency syllables. This approach is a hybrid one, combining the notion of a mental syllabary with an explanation that the impairment in AOS results from reduced access to supra-segmental phonetic…
Descriptors: Syllables, Word Frequency, Phonetics, Suprasegmentals