How do children organize their speech in the first years of life?
- Purpose: This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57 typically developing German children (4 cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared with 12 adults. It examines whether the organization of lingual gestures for intrasyllabic coarticulation differs as a function of age and consonantal context. Method: Using the technique of ultrasound imaging, we recorded movement of the tongue articulator during the production of pseudowords, including various vocalic and consonantal contexts. Results: Results from linear mixed-effects models show greater lingual coarticulation in all groups of children as compared with adults with a significant decrease from the kindergarten years (at ages 3, 4, and 5 years) to the end of the 1st year into primary school (at age 7 years). Additional differences in coarticulation degree were found across and within age groups as a function of the onset consonant identity (/b/, / d/, and /g/). Conclusions: Results support the view that, although coarticulation degreePurpose: This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57 typically developing German children (4 cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared with 12 adults. It examines whether the organization of lingual gestures for intrasyllabic coarticulation differs as a function of age and consonantal context. Method: Using the technique of ultrasound imaging, we recorded movement of the tongue articulator during the production of pseudowords, including various vocalic and consonantal contexts. Results: Results from linear mixed-effects models show greater lingual coarticulation in all groups of children as compared with adults with a significant decrease from the kindergarten years (at ages 3, 4, and 5 years) to the end of the 1st year into primary school (at age 7 years). Additional differences in coarticulation degree were found across and within age groups as a function of the onset consonant identity (/b/, / d/, and /g/). Conclusions: Results support the view that, although coarticulation degree decreases with age, children do not organize consecutive articulatory gestures with a uniform organizational scheme (e.g., segmental or syllabic). Instead, results suggest that coarticulatory organization is sensitive to the underlying articulatory properties of the segments combined.…
Author details: | Aude NoirayORCiDGND, Dzhuma AbakarovaORCiD, Elina RubertusORCiDGND, Stella Krüger, Mark TiedeORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0148 |
ISSN: | 1092-4388 |
ISSN: | 1558-9102 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29799996 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of speech, language, and hearing research |
Subtitle (English): | insight from ultrasound imaging |
Publisher: | American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc. |
Place of publishing: | Rockville |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/06/19 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2021/11/25 |
Volume: | 61 |
Issue: | 6 |
Number of pages: | 14 |
First page: | 1355 |
Last Page: | 1368 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [1098, 255676067] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |