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Higgs, Jo Ann Williamson; Hodson, Barbara Williams – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
Adults and 4-year-old children were tested to determine whether the children were able to decode sets of familiar minimal pairs as well as adults. They listened to words spoken in a normal voice and a whisper. Indications were that the 4-year-old's perceptual mastery of English phonology is not yet complete. (SW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Edwards, Mary Louise – Journal of Child Language, 1974
Perception and production data were collected from 28 children, ages 1 year 8 months to 3 years 11 months to test four specific hypotheses on the acquisition of initial fricatives and glides in English, based on the assumptions that perception precedes production and unmarked precedes marked. Perception data were collected by the Shvachkin-Garnica…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Vargha-Khadem, F.; And Others – 1977
A preliminary experiment was conducted to explore the effects of illiteracy on hemispheric specialization. Groups of literate and illiterate Iranian children were tested on three dichotic tapes consisting of monosyllabic animal names, double-digit numbers, and nonverbal environmental sounds. All children were also tested for handedness and for…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cerebral Dominance, Child Language, Children
Bremer, Christine D.; McGovern, Katharine – 1977
Three ten-step series of synthetic speech stimuli were constructed: /raem/ to laem/, /raem/ to /waem/, and /laem/ to /yaem/. Within each series, differences consisted of variations in onset frequency and slope of transition in the second or third formant. These stimuli were presented to 5- to 7-year-old children in identification…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language, Consonants
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Papcun, George; And Others – Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1974
Morse code signals were presented dichotically to Morse code operators and to naive subjects with no knowledge of Morse code. The operators showed right ear superiority, indicating left hemisphere dominance for the perception of dichotically presented Morse code letters. Naive subjects showed the same right ear superiority when presented with a…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Language Research
Robeck, Mildred C. – 1975
Some very practical questions about how children learn the first language compel us to study brain functions and how these functions evolve. They also bring the studies of linguistics and neurology together. The purpose of this paper is to relate some of the research that describes language acquisition with the research about the early development…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
McGuinness, Diane – MIT Press (BK), 2005
Research on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among children taught by the same method. Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to read at all? In "Language Development and Learning to Read", Diane…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Speech, Reading Research, Psycholinguistics