Perception of the voicing contrast by Dutch children and adults  

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Kuijpers, C. T. L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 24 no. 3 (Jul. 1996), page 367-382.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/24 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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A phoneme identification experiment manipulating closure duration was carried out to investigate perception of the word-medial voicing contrast by Dutch four-year-old, six-year-old, and Dutch adults. Pretest results show that all children responded correctly to real-word minimal pairs differing in stop voicing. SUbsequently, subjects were tested in an identification task using nonsense words, in whichclosure duration for labial and alveolar stops was manipulated through waveform editing. The two older age groups consistently distinguished voiced and voiceless stops. The younger children displayed a relatively high percentage of ambiguous responses, indicating that they had difficulties with the categorization of voiced and voiceless stops. Results are discussed in relation to adult percepotion, the perceptrion-production relationship, and early infant research. It is argued that phoneme perception in children from the age of four evolves synchronously with their phoneme production, and that teh eprceptual processes develop gradually with age.

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