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.…
Verfasserangaben: | 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 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Journal of speech, language, and hearing research |
Untertitel (Englisch): | insight from ultrasound imaging |
Verlag: | American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc. |
Verlagsort: | Rockville |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 19.06.2018 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 25.11.2021 |
Band: | 61 |
Ausgabe: | 6 |
Seitenanzahl: | 14 |
Erste Seite: | 1355 |
Letzte Seite: | 1368 |
Fördernde Institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [1098, 255676067] |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |