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Development of Achieving Constancy in Lexical Tone Identification with Contextual Cues
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Chen, Fei; Zhang, Kaile; Guo, Qingqing; Lv, Jia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore when and how Mandarin-speaking children use contextual cues to normalize speech variability in perceiving lexical tones. Two different cognitive mechanisms underlying speech normalization (lower level acoustic normalization and higher level acoustic-phonemic normalization) were investigated through the…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Acoustics, Phonemics
The Relation between Stimulus Context, Speech Audibility, and Perception for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children.
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Stelmachowicz, Patricia G.; Hoover, Brenda M.; Lewis, Dawna E.; Kortekaas, Reinier W. L.; Pittman, Andrea L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2000
This study examined the influence of stimulus context and audibility on sentence recognition in 60 normal-hearing children, 24 hearing-impaired children, and 20 normal-hearing adults. For both semantically correct and semantically anomalous sentences, there was a systematic age-related shift in the performance-intensity functions. Data from the…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests