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Auditory Feedback in the Regulation of Vocal Intensity of Preschool Children
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Siegle, Gerald M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1976
This study investigated the importance of auditory feedback in the speech of 3- and 4-year-old preschool children and in adults. The findings indicate that auditory feedback is involved in the regulation of vocal intensity, even in children as young as 3 years. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Audiolingual Skills, Feedback
How Do 4-Day-Old Infants Categorize Multisyllabic Utterances?
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Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Three experiments tested whether four-day-old infants can discriminate multisyllabic utterances on the basis of the number of syllables or the number of phonemes. The results provided no evidence that infants were sensitive to a change in number of phonemic constituents. (MDM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Foreign Countries
Newborns Discriminate the Rhythm of Multisyllabic Stressed Words.
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Sansavini, Alessandra; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined whether newborns were able to discriminate different stress patterns in multisyllabic stressed Italian words that varied both in consonants and in number of syllables. Found that newborns were sensitive to words' rhythm, as carried by stress patterns, and that this prosodic information was salient even in the presence of substantial…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Communication (Thought Transfer)