TY  - JOUR
A1  - Noiray, Aude
A1  - Wieling, Martijn
A1  - Abakarova, Dzhuma
A1  - Rubertus, Elina
A1  - Tiede, Mark
T1  - Back from the future
T1  - Nonlinear anticipation in adults' and children's speech
T2  - Journal of speech, language, and hearing research
N2  - Purpose: This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for nonlinear processes in vocalic anticipation, which may result from the interaction between lingual gestural goals for individual vowels and those for their neighbors over time. Method: The technique of ultrasound imaging was employed to record tongue movement at 5 time points throughout short utterances of the form V1#CV2. Vocalic anticipation was examined with generalized additive modeling, an analytical approach allowing for the estimation of both linear and nonlinear influences on anticipatory processes. Conclusions: A developmental transition towards more segmentally-specified coarticulatory organizations seems to occur from kindergarten to primary school to adulthood. In adults, nonlinear anticipatory patterns over time suggest a strong differentiation between the gestural goals for consecutive segments. In children, this differentiation is not yet mature: Vowels show greater prominence over time and seem activated more in phase with those of previous segments relative to adults.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48730
SN  - 1092-4388
SN  - 1558-9102
VL  - 62
IS  - 8
SP  - 3033
EP  - 3054
PB  - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
CY  - Rockville
ER  -