Listener Reliability in Assigning Utterance Boundaries in Children's Spontaneous Speech

Autor/in	Stockman, Ida J.
Titel	Listener Reliability in Assigning Utterance Boundaries in Children's Spontaneous Speech
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 31 (2010) 3, S.363-395 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716410000032
Schlagwörter	Cues; Speech; Oral Language; Language Impairments; Speech Language Pathology; Professional Education; Young Children; Females; Evaluators; Interrater Reliability; Audio Equipment; Grammar; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Speaking; Sprechen; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Berufsausbildung; Frühe Kindheit; Weibliches Geschlecht; Interrater-Reliabilität; Audio-CD; Grammatik; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Research and clinical practices often rely on an utterance unit for spoken language analysis. This paper calls attention to the problems encountered when identifying utterance boundaries in young children's spontaneous conversational speech. The results of a reliability study of utterance boundary assignment are described for 20 females with graduate professional education in speech-language pathology. They judged audiorecorded spontaneous speech samples that were elicited from 4-year-old children. Their agreement with each other (interobserver) was significantly lower than their self-agreement (intraobserver). Interobserver agreement varied with the length/grammatical complexity of response turns, and the number and types of selective boundary cues presented in the speech stimuli. The findings have research and clinical implications for the utterance as a conceptual notion and its use constraints. (As Provided).
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