| Title: |
Audiovisual Vowel Monitoring and the Word Superiority Effect in Children |
| 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 |
| Physical Description: |
PDF |
| 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 |