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Schiller, Isabel S.; Morsomme, Dominique; Kob, Malte; Remacle, Angélique – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Our aim was to investigate isolated and combined effects of speech-shaped noise (SSN) and a speaker's impaired voice quality on spoken language processing in first-grade children. Method: In individual examinations, 53 typically developing children aged 5-6 years performed a speech perception task (phoneme discrimination) and a listening…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech, Language Processing, Elementary School Students
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Wang, Min; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We reported three experiments investigating subsyllabic unit preference in young Chinese children. In Experiment 1, a Chinese sound similarity judgment task was designed in which 48 pair of stimuli varied in terms of shared subsyllabic units (i.e., vowel, body, rime, onset-coda). Grade 1 Chinese-speaking monolingual children judged pairs with…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Preschool Children, Rhyme
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Chiappe, Penny; Glaeser, Barbara; Ferko, Doreen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study examined the roles of speech perception and phonological processing in reading and spelling acquisition for native and nonnative speakers of English in the 1st grade. The performance of 50 children (23 native English speakers and 27 native Korean speakers) was examined on tasks assessing reading and spelling, phonological processing,…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Spelling, Reading Skills, Oral Language