Audiovisual Vowel Monitoring and the Word Superiority Effect in Children
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| Title: | Audiovisual Vowel Monitoring and the Word Superiority Effect in Children |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Fort, Mathilde, Spinelli, Elsa, Savariaux, Christophe |
| Source: | International Journal of Behavioral Development. Nov 2012 36(6):457-467. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 11 |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Vowels, Vocabulary, Cognitive Processes, French, Children, Word Recognition, Phonemes, Young Children, Perception, Experiments, Stimuli, Scores, Adults |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025412447752 |
| ISSN: | 0165-0254 |
| Abstract: | The goal of this study was to explore whether viewing the speaker's articulatory gestures contributes to lexical access in children (ages 5-10) and in adults. We conducted a vowel monitoring task with words and pseudo-words in audio-only (AO) and audiovisual (AV) contexts with white noise masking the acoustic signal. The results indicated that children clearly benefited from visual speech from age 6-7 onwards. However, unlike adults, the word superiority effect was not greater in the AV than the AO condition in children, suggesting that visual speech mostly contributes to phonemic--rather than lexical--processing during childhood, at least until the age of 10. (Contains 3 figures and 1 note.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 50 |
| Entry Date: | 2013 |
| Accession Number: | EJ990300 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The goal of this study was to explore whether viewing the speaker's articulatory gestures contributes to lexical access in children (ages 5-10) and in adults. We conducted a vowel monitoring task with words and pseudo-words in audio-only (AO) and audiovisual (AV) contexts with white noise masking the acoustic signal. The results indicated that children clearly benefited from visual speech from age 6-7 onwards. However, unlike adults, the word superiority effect was not greater in the AV than the AO condition in children, suggesting that visual speech mostly contributes to phonemic--rather than lexical--processing during childhood, at least until the age of 10. (Contains 3 figures and 1 note.) |
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| ISSN: | 0165-0254 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025412447752 |
