Measuring Child Rhythm.
| Autor: | Payne, Elinor, Post, Brechtje, Astruc, Lluïsa, Prieto, Pilar, Vanrell, Maria del Mar |
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LANGUAGE classification
HYPOTHESIS AGE distribution ANALYSIS of variance COMPARATIVE studies CONSONANTS EXPERIMENTAL design LANGUAGE acquisition MOTHER-child relationship PHONETICS RESEARCH funding SOUND recordings PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of speech STATISTICS VOCABULARY VOWELS DATA analysis DESCRIPTIVE statistics ADULTS CHILDREN |
| Zdroj: | Language & Speech; Jun2012, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p203-229, 27p |
| Abstrakt: | Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers. Results reveal that child speech does not fall into a well-defined rhythmic class: for all three languages, it is more ‘vocalic’ (higher %V) than adult speech and has a tendency towards lower variability (when normalized for speech rate) in vocalic interval duration. Consonantal interval variability, however, is higher in child speech, particularly for younger children. Nevertheless, despite the identification of common, cross-linguistic patterns in child speech, the emergence of language-specific rhythmic indices is also clearly observable, even in the speech of 2 year-olds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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