The Influence of Misarticulations on Children's Word Identification and Processing.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of the present studies was to determine how children's identification and processing of misarticulated words was influenced by substitution commonness.

Method

Sixty-one typically developing preschoolers across 3 experiments heard accurate productions of words (e.g., "leaf"), words containing common substitutions (e.g., "weaf"), and words containing uncommon substitutions (e.g., "yeaf"). On each trial, preschoolers chose between a real object picture (e.g., a leaf) and a nonobject (e.g., an anomalous line drawing). Accuracy and processing were measured using MouseTracker and eye tracking.

Results

Overall, children chose real objects significantly more when presented with accurate productions (e.g., "leaf") than misarticulated productions (e.g., "wea

SUBMITTER: Krueger BI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194946 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature