An experimental investigation of adult perception of one-word utterances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel L Olney (University of Maryland, College Park), Ellin Kofsky Scholnick (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-142 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000900001987 |
| PMID | 632334 |
| OpenAlex | W2131477734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In order to examine the extent to which adult judgments of first words depend on visual and auditory cues, spontaneous utterances were collected for boys and girls of 1; 5, 1; 6 and 1; 10 as well as adults naming the same toys. Vocalizations clearly appropriate to the original visual context were dubbed onto new contexts varying in the number of phonetic features (0-2) by which the first phoneme of the utterance differed from the initial phoneme labelling the visual context. College students' perceptual accuracy declined with degree of mismatch, although the identical speech occurred in each context. The older the speaker, the less perception was affected by visual context. Whereas the meaning of child speech was judged by visual cues, adult meanings were judged mostly by auditory input. Biases in perceiving early speech may prompt reconsideration of current methodology and theory in early language acquisition
Cognitive psychology · Context effect · Linguistics · Perception · Speech perception · Utterance · Visual perception · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
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Transitional phenomena in early language acquisition
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One Word at a Time
Words and Sounds in Early Language Acquisition
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |