On the development of gestural organization: A cross-sectional study of vowel-to-vowel anticipatory coarticulation.

ABSTRACT: In the first years of life, children differ greatly from adults in the temporal organization of their speech gestures in fluent language production. However, dissent remains as to the maturational direction of such organization. The present study sheds new light on this process by tracking the development of anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in a cross-sectional investigation of 62 German children (from 3.5 to 7 years of age) and 13 adults. It focuses on gestures of the tongue, a complex organ whose spatiotemporal control is indispensable for speech production. The goal of the study was threefold: 1) investigate whether children as well as adults initiate the articulation for a target vowel in advance of its acoustic onset, 2) test if the identity of the intervocalic consonant mat

SUBMITTER: Rubertus E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6138403 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature