Development of Unfamiliar Accent Comprehension Continues through Adolescence

Autor/in	Bent, Tessa
Titel	Development of Unfamiliar Accent Comprehension Continues through Adolescence
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 45 (2018) 6, S.1400-1411 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Dialects; Pronunciation; Comprehension; Children; Adolescents; Familiarity; Native Speakers; Sentences; Acoustics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dialect; Dialekt; Aussprache; Verstehen; Verständnis; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Muttersprachler; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Akustik
Abstract	School-age children's understanding of unfamiliar accents is not adult-like and the age at which this ability fully matures is unknown. To address this gap, eight- to fifteen-year-old children's (n = 74) understanding of native- and non-native-accented sentences in quiet and noise was assessed. Children's performance was adult-like by eleven to twelve years for the native accent in noise and by fourteen to fifteen years for the non-native accent in quiet. However, fourteen- to fifteen-year old's performance was not adult-like for the non-native accent in noise. Thus, adult-like comprehension of unfamiliar accents may require greater exposure to linguistic variability or additional cognitive-linguistic growth. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01