What is it about?
Children hear misarticulated words in their daily life from siblings, peers, or even in their own productions. This form of variability could have negative impacts on words children learn from each other (incidental learning), because it is unclear whether they draw upon their experience with variability to assist them in correctly interpreting the words they hear. We found that children do, in fact understand misarticulated words, but their speed of identification is slowed as a result.
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This study increases our understanding of word learning and speech variability in children.
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I enjoyed every minute of this study, and learned so much. Mousetracking and eye-tracking methodology are invaluable resources for those of us studying children's communication!
Breanna Krueger
University of Wyoming
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This page is a summary of: The Influence of Misarticulations on Children's Word Identification and Processing, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2017_jslhr-s-16-0379.
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