Audiovisual speech recalibration in children

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ID20367178
AuthorsSABINE VAN LINDEN (Tilburg University), Jean Vroomen (0000-0001-5923-5988, Tilburg University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue4
Pages809-822
Publication date2008-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000908008817
PMID18838013
OpenAlexW2040446220
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

In order to examine whether children adjust their phonetic speech categories, children of two age groups, five-year-olds and eight-year-olds, were exposed to a video of a face saying /aba/ or /ada/ accompanied by an auditory ambiguous speech sound halfway between /b/ and /d/. The effect of exposure to these audiovisual stimuli was measured on subsequently delivered auditory-only speech identification trials. Results were compared to a control condition in which the audiovisual exposure stimuli contained non-ambiguous and congruent sounds /aba/ or /ada/. The older children learned to categorize the initially ambiguous speech sound in accord with the previously seen lip-read information (i.e. recalibration), but this was not the case for the younger age group. Moreover, all children displayed a tendency to report the stimulus that they were exposed to during the exposure phase. Methodological improvements for adjusting such a response bias are discussed

Audiology · Categorization · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Perception · Phonetics · Speech perception · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Multisensory perception and integration · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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