Developmental change in children's speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study.

Autor: Zamuner TS; Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada., Rabideau T; Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada., McDonald M; Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada.; School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada., Yeung HH; Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.; Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Centre, UMR 8002, CNRS and University of Paris, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of child language [J Child Lang] 2023 Jan; Vol. 50 (1), pp. 27-51. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 08.
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000921000684
Abstrakt: This study investigates how children aged two to eight years ( N = 129) and adults ( N = 29) use auditory and visual speech for word recognition. The goal was to bridge the gap between apparent successes of visual speech processing in young children in visual-looking tasks, with apparent difficulties of speech processing in older children from explicit behavioural measures. Participants were presented with familiar words in audio-visual (AV), audio-only (A-only) or visual-only (V-only) speech modalities, then presented with target and distractor images, and looking to targets was measured. Adults showed high accuracy, with slightly less target-image looking in the V-only modality. Developmentally, looking was above chance for both AV and A-only modalities, but not in the V-only modality until 6 years of age (earlier on /k/-initial words). Flexible use of visual cues for lexical access develops throughout childhood.
Databáze: MEDLINE