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Keywords
Children--Language; Phonetics; Speech; Speech perception;
Abstract
Much of the literature suggests a relationship, still obscure, between the production and perception of speech sounds. Investigators of speech perception have, for the most part, studied children of school age. This study, however, was concerned with the production and perception at one stage of development, i.e., at the threeyear-old level. Specifically, this investigator compared the perception of /r/ and /w/ words. Two groups of three-yearold children, sixteen who said /r/ correctly (called the r/r group}, and sixteen who substituted /w/ for /r/ (called the w/r group} were subjects in this study. The eight boys and eight girls in each of the two groups were asked to point to pictures which differed by a single phoneme (ring-wing, rake-wake) as named by the examiner (other-perception task) and by themselves (self-perception task). Results of the study were as follows:
1, Three-year-old children in the r/r group more often correctly identified (pointed to) both the /r/ and /w/ when spoken by the examiner than did the w/r group.
2. Three-year-old children in the r/r group more often correctly identified (pointed to) both the /r/ and /w/ when spoken by themselves than did the w/r group,
3. Although the r/r and w/r groups were each consistent in their production patterns, some children within each of the two main groups were also consistent in the pointing responses made in the other-perception task, while others showed variable performances. These consistent and variable subgroups differed in the same way in the self-perception tasks.
4. The data gathered in this investigation seemed to indicate that regardless of the articulatory ability of these three-year-olds, they had not established firm boundaries between the /r/ and /w/ phonemes.
Year of Submission
1974
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
First Advisor
Roy Eblen
Second Advisor
James House
Third Advisor
Thomas R. Berg
Date Original
1974
Object Description
1 PDF file (70 leaves)
Copyright
©1974 Gloria Schuck Bronsema
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bronsema, Gloria Schuck, "Relationship of Perception and Production of /r/ In Three-Year-Old Children" (1974). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2191.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2191
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