Tuomainen, O;
Lee, C;
Granlund, S;
Hazan, VL;
(2015)
Phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech by children aged 9-14 years.
Presented at: 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK.
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Abstract
The aim of our study was to investigate whether children distinguish between ‘new’ and ‘given’ information via phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech in a similar way to adults. An interactive ‘spot the difference’ game was used to elicit spontaneous speech. Word duration, fundamental frequency and vowel formant frequencies in repeated content words relative to when they were mentioned for the first time were analysed in 96 children between 9-14 years of age. There were significant developmental changes in the three acoustic-phonetic parameters between children and adults. Children produced longer words, had higher median pitch and vowel formant values than adults. However, despite these differences in spontaneous speech between children and adults, we report that, by 9 years of age (and possibly earlier), children produce phonetic reduction to higlight 'new/given' information distinction in spontaneous speech dialogues in an adult-like manner.
| Type: | Conference item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Title: | Phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech by children aged 9-14 years |
| Event: | 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Location: | Glasgow, UK |
| Dates: | 10 August 2015 - 14 August 2015 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-85261-941-4 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/i... |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Spontaneous speech, speaker adaptation, second-mention reduction, child speech production |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470560 |
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