Some Effects of Variations in Response Time Latency on Speech Rate, Interruptions, and Fluency in Children's Speech
| Autor: | Linda L. Newman, Ann Bosma Smit |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Linguistics and Language Speech production Sound Spectrography media_common.quotation_subject Stuttering Paralanguage Language and Linguistics Speech and Hearing Fluency Reaction Time Humans Speech Interpersonal Relations Conversation Latency (engineering) media_common Communication business.industry Response time Language acquisition Child Preschool Female business Psychology Speech rate Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 32:635-644 |
| ISSN: | 1558-9102 1092-4388 |
| DOI: | 10.1044/jshr.3203.635 |
| Popis: | The present study was designed to examine adult-child interactions during conversation with respect to the effects of adult paralinguistic speech variations on the speech production of children. Four 4-year-old children served as subjects. A single-subject A-B-A design with counterbalancing and replication was implemented. Each subject participated in three 15-min conversations with an experimenter. The independent variable was the interspeaker pause time—the response time latency (RTL). During the 15-min conversations, the experimenter used either a 1-s or a 3-s RTL when responding to the child. RTL was measured for each subject in each condition. Data analysis revealed that each child's RTL was significantly longer when the experimenter's RTL was 3 s than when it was 1 s, and all differences between all conditions reached significance for these subjects. Other dependent variables included speech rate, the frequency of disfluencies, and the frequency of interruptions produced by the subjects within each condition. All 4 subjects varied the frequency of disfluencies and interruptions. However, each child varied rate and disfluencies in a highly individualistic manner. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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